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lane0618
Posting Yak Master

134 Posts

Posted - 2002-11-04 : 13:25:39
I am working with a DTS package that has a connection to MS Access. In Access I have a user named "update" that has rights to update the tables. When I type in the user name "update" in the Connection Properties window(in SQL), I recieve this error:

Error Source: Microsoft Jet Database Engine

Error Description: Cannot start your application. The workgroup informaition file is missing or opened exclusively by another user.

I don't get this when I type "Admin" for the username. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Lane

mr_mist
Grunnio

1870 Posts

Posted - 2002-11-05 : 04:09:04
quote:

I am working with a DTS package that has a connection to MS Access. In Access I have a user named "update" that has rights to update the tables. When I type in the user name "update" in the Connection Properties window(in SQL), I recieve this error:

Error Source: Microsoft Jet Database Engine

Error Description: Cannot start your application. The workgroup informaition file is missing or opened exclusively by another user.

I don't get this when I type "Admin" for the username. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Lane





This may not be what is happening in your case, but I've seen this error when the path to the DTS file is very long.

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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2002-11-05 : 08:08:58
I've also had numerous problems when DTS'ing to an Access file, especially on a network drive. They also went away when using the Admin login. There's also the Access LDB lock file, that needs to be available and modifiable by the DTS process, and I think that using Admin is the only way to guarantee the proper permissions.

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