I'm new to asp, but I have done some work with VB. not much. we're using multiple Access databases located on several different machines on the network. I want to query each of those databases on an asp page being served off my localhost, but when I try to give the location of the db's the way I do in the VB version,("Y:\abc\abc.mdb") it doesn't work. Is there another way I have to do this? The page works when I copy an .mdb to the local directory, but I can't do that with all of them. thank you.