You haven't posted any code, so it's difficult to help you. Did you try Googling the error message to find out what it means? Also, this is a SQL question so it should be posted in the SQL forum. It has nothing to do with web development. Paul Marfleet "No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government" Tom Sawyer - Rush

Look at the various connection strings at http://www.connectionstrings.com[^], and I'd bookmark the mentioned site for future reference :-D "That's no moon, it's a space station." - Obi-wan Kenobi

Hi friend sorry but i never got this type of error while connection string you r doing right. I just thinking where you done this coding is it in the class or out of class method?? May be that's only problem.. Sorry for this.. Viral YahooID : just_viral My Site : www.theseoworld.info

ya its working thank u very very much for avoiding such error, by using HTTP.........:) could u plz help me in another prob My website contains 1)let me take my website ftp address 10.29.398.456 & http address www.mydomain.com 2)under which /db /logs /wwwroot folders are there 3)under /wwwroot /data /mail and some other folders 4)under /data /db1.mdb is there by using above example please write configurationSettings & connection string bcoz even though it not showing error it shows error at runtime thank u very much, I hope u will reply for this. multimedia9