I created a test DSN on Windows Server 2008 (x64) pointing to an x64 sql server (Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC)). I deleted the DSN, logged out, then in again and noted that the DSN came back. (I verified this behaviour -- I deleted the DSN, logged out, then in again, and the DSN re-appeared). Any thoughts on killing that DSN permanently much appreciated. TIA, Barkingdog P.S. Forgot to mention, the DSN can successfully connect to the data target.

Hi, You can post on http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories Thanks.

Hello, I strongly recommend you to write up in the SQL Server Data Access forum which more likely related to the ODBC connection stuff. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldataaccess/threadshttp://www.virmansec.com/blogs/skhairuddin

I will postit on the sqldataaccess group but the problem "appeared" to be more OS-related than database-related. Barkingdog