Server MapPath with direct address (2)

The error message can be caused by invalid permissions
on the .mdb access database you are trying to access.  IIS uses a
default "IUSR_*" account for anonymous web access.  When a user
connects to a web server and tries to connect to a database on that
web server, he/she will be using an IIS account- which most likely
will be the "IUSR_*" account (unless you have changed the default
setup.  In windows 2000/NT, the primary means of accessing a file is
controlled via the permissions on that file.  Any user attempting to
read any file on a server must have proper permissions on that file.
Your *.mdb file must have read (for queries) or write (for posting)
permissions granted to the "IUSR_*" account that web-visitors will be
using when they connect to the database.

>>I used the answer given in Server MapPath with direct address (the original). objDC.Open "DBQ=\\Server2\ServerDBs\TestDB.mdb;" which worked for JerryPope here's the original question:

Unless you're JerryPope, with the same filename and same server, it's NOT going to work. Why would it? Are you opening TestDB.mdb on Server2?

You need to set the path to YOUR database, not somebody else's.

Post your connection string.

webwoman that's the funniest thing I have ever seen!! ha ha...no I will not give you my connect string.  Security issues, sorry.  I am NOT using THAT connect string (I am not as dumb as I look).  However, I am definitely pointed to the right place.  Thanks webwoman...ykf2000 I am using NT 4.0 and I have control over the database as well as control over the script on server1, nobody else is using this web page (yet)...I don't think it's a permissions issue, I am looking deeper into that.  Joshbm, what's a DSN-less connection?  Thanks everybody.

I doubt you're pointed to the right place -- that's the standard error message when you AREN'T pointed to the right place.

If you don't want to give the full connection string, that's fine -- but without seeing how you've constructed it, we've got NO way of knowing whether it's remotely close to being right.

WHO ARE YOU?  Are you kidding me?  Wow, I am suprised that you actually have that kind of score, with how smart you really are.  Web Woman, you are probably one of those people that has to get their last word in because I can just tell, and well this is the last time I am saying anything to you.  

I AM POINTED TO THE RIGHT PLACE!  I have a connect string EXACTLY LIKE THAT, but pointed to MY DATABASE...And I copy and paste that SAME PATH in the run program and looky loo the database pops RIGHT UP!  Why do you care anyways, what are you going to come into my firewall and open the freaking database yourself?  Are you just THAT SMART?!?!

Did a little more research and I wrote this SIMPLE little script and it just baffles me.

<%
Set MyDirectory=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set MyFiles=MyDirectory.GetFolder("//MyServer/MyFolder")
For each filefound in MyFiles.files
%>

<% =filefound.Name %>
<br>

<%
Next
%>

If MyServer is the same server the script itself is on, I get the contents back of MyFolder.  If MyServer is any other server...it gives the error message Path not found.  MyFolder exists and has files in it, and the path DOES exist, just can't find it through this simple code...