gaorellana

thanks argoSquirrel. Yes you are right! that was the problem.

I am newbie with php, and I am using Win XP and IIS and my web server is in the localhost. about read only attribute I did check on MS Access File>DataBase Properties in the General tab and the Attributes group is disabled (light grayed) but I acn see the check read only unchecked. Also if I check the attributes outside from Access i.e. Windows Explorer the attribute flag readonly in unchecked too. I post a check list of what I did. 1.create a MS Access Database (blank database) from the MS Access task pane. 2.locate the database outside the root path of the web folder. My root path for web is c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite and the folder for the db is in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite_db 3.I created a SystemDSN and give it the user and admin in advanced options of the ODBC Manager. 4.Wrote this code: [code]$val = array(); $con=odbc_connect("mySystemDSN","Admin","a_password"); $sql="exec user_A 'pepe', 'pepe','123456','pepe@pipo.pp','127.0.0.1','123456',0"; $rs = odbc_exec($con, $sql); odbc_free_result ( $rs ); odbc_close( $con );[/code] First I used to login with blank admin and pwd. Then I attached the account Admin of the Access database a paswword. I still get the same ODBC error: [color=green]Warning: odbc_exec() [function.odbc-exec]: SQL error: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Operation must use an updateable query., SQL state S1000 in SQLExecDirect [/color] I still didn't get an idea of what is going on. thanks in advance