hi, i am a newbie at this.

i am trying to connect to an access database with a dsnl-ess connetion at my isp. i thing the problem is with the path.

1) created a site for the file - ok
2) chose the document type - asp w/vbscript
3) set up the testing server - DW can connect

Here is the problem:

conString

"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" &_ Server.MapPath("database\gf_pizza.mdb"

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name to long

any help would be greatly appreciated.

gt