Hey, thanks for the hint. I had to specify the dsn as user-dsn and not as file-dsn!!! Now it’s working. Have a nice weekend Pindar Von: Hélio Guilherme [mailto:helioxentric@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Juli 2010 13:39 An: Pindar Betreff: Re: [Gretl-users] Access 2007 database connection? Hi, I am not an expert, nor I have Access 2007. However, the error message you present, makes me wonder if you have the ODBC driver properly set up to access the database (database name and authentication credentials). That error happened when Gretl tried to open the database, but the driver did not succeeded. Good luck, Helio On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Pindar <pindar(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: Hi there, I've got an Access 2007 database and my first tries to establish a connection were disappointing, failing in the 'open' stage : Error in SQLConnect [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]. I'm new to that stuff and have no idea how to fix the problem. Both the database and GRETL are in on my Windows 7 PC. I would appreciate your help!!! Best Pindar