Obfuscation is probably the only thing that will work for this scenario - have you tried connectionstrings.com? They're pretty good with many flavors of connection strings. If you don't find it there, someone in one of the Access newsgroups will know for sure. -Mary On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:18:11 -0700, G Hustis <GHustis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Mary, Thank you for your reply