Need help with Drivers error '80004005'

I keep getting this error when trying to submit a form I created on Dreamweaver that is connected to an Access database:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no
default driver specified

/egs intranet/Connections/testpage.asp, line 76

My include page is:

<%
// FileName="Connection_odbc_conn_dsn.htm"
// Type="ADO"
// DesigntimeType="ADO"
// HTTP="false"
// Catalog=""
// Schema=""
var MM_Testing_STRING = "DSN=Testing"
%>

And the DSN=Testing is pointing to the correct web server. Could this
have something to do with permissions on that server

My Full code for my test form is:

<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!--#include virtual="/egs intranet/Connections/Testing.asp" -->
<%
// *** Edit Operations: declare variables

// set the form action variable
var MM_editAction = Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME");
if (Request.QueryString) {
MM_editAction += " " + Server.HTMLEncode(Request.QueryString);

}

// boolean to abort record edit
var MM_abortEdit = false;

// query string to execute
var MM_editQuery = "";
%>
<%
// *** Insert Record: set variables

if (String(Request("MM_insert")) == "form1") {

var MM_editConnection = MM_Testing_STRING;
var MM_editTable = "tblTest";
var MM_editRedirectUrl = "ESCThankYou.asp";
var MM_fieldsStr = "ID|value|Name|value|City|value";
var MM_columnsStr =
"ID|none,none,NULL|Name|',none,''|City|',none,''";

// create the MM_fields and MM_columns arrays
var MM_fields = MM_fieldsStr.split("|");
var MM_columns = MM_columnsStr.split("|");

// set the form values
for (var i=0; i+1 < MM_fields.length; i+=2) {
MM_fields[i+1] = String(Request.Form(MM_fieldsIdea));
}

// append the query string to the redirect URL
if (MM_editRedirectUrl && Request.QueryString &&
Request.QueryString.Count > 0) {
MM_editRedirectUrl += ((MM_editRedirectUrl.indexOf(' ') ==
-1) " ":"&") + Request.QueryString;
}

}

%>
<%
// *** Insert Record: construct a sql insert statement and execute it

if (String(Request("MM_insert")) != "undefined") {

// create the sql insert statement
var MM_tableValues = "", MM_dbValues = "";
for (var i=0; i+1 < MM_fields.length; i+=2) {
var formVal = MM_fields[i+1];
var MM_typesArray = MM_columns[i+1].split(",");
var delim = (MM_typesArray[0] != "none") MM_typesArray[0] :
"";
var altVal = (MM_typesArray[1] != "none") MM_typesArray[1] :
"";
var emptyVal = (MM_typesArray[2] != "none") MM_typesArray[2] :
"";
if (formVal == "" || formVal == "undefined") {
formVal = emptyVal;
} else {
if (altVal != "") {
formVal = altVal;
} else if (delim == "'") { // escape quotes
formVal = "'" + formVal.replace(/'/g,"''") + "'";
} else {
formVal = delim + formVal + delim;
}
}
MM_tableValues += ((i != 0) "," : "") + MM_columnsIdea;
MM_dbValues += ((i != 0) "," : "") + formVal;
}
MM_editQuery = "insert into " + MM_editTable + " (" + MM_tableValues
+ ") values (" + MM_dbValues + ")";

if (!MM_abortEdit) {
// execute the insert
var MM_editCmd = Server.CreateObject('ADODB.Command');
MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection = MM_editConnection;
------------------------------->>>ERROR
MM_editCmd.CommandText = MM_editQuery;
MM_editCmd.Execute();
MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection.Close();

if (MM_editRedirectUrl) {
Response.Redirect(MM_editRedirectUrl);
}
}

}

%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
/>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form method="POST" action="<%=MM_editAction%>" name="form1">
<table align="center">
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">ID:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="ID" value="" size="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="Name" value="" size="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">City:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="City" value="" size="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">&nbsp;</td>
<td><input type="submit" value="Insert record">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1">
</form>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Justine




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Need help with Drivers error '80004005'

  • fishks

    You need to create a DSN that matches the "Testing" in the following statement.

    var MM_Testing_STRING = "DSN=Testing"

    You can learn how to do this by going to MSDN and searching for creating Create DSN.

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/79hh5st2.aspx


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