Re: >>> HELP: MS-Access and Windows NT

From: James A. Mumper <jamumper_at_mercury.ptes.com>
Date: 1996/04/22
Message-ID: <317C1264.12A1_at_mercury.ptes.com>#1/1


Dieter Oberkofler wrote:

> I'm running the Oracle ODBC 16bit Driver for Oracle on my Windows NT 3.51
> System (with NewShell) and it works fine ...except MS Access.
> I'm able to use the ODBC calls from ... MSQuery,
> just MS Access doesn't work at all.
> MS Access gives me the following ... when trying to connect ...:
> ODBC-call failed.
> [OPL]connection rejected by data source(#0)
>
> Dieter Oberkofler
> Software Engineer

If you are running MS Access for Windows NT, that is a 32-Bit program and cannot use 16-Bit ODBC drivers. MS Query is 16-Bit regardless of platform and that is why it will work for you. You need to get a 32-Bit ODBC driver or a 16-Bit MS Access.

-- 
James A. Mumper
Senior Oracle DBA
Pacific Telesis Video Services
Received on Mon Apr 22 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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