Problem with System DSN (HELP!!!)

We have a customer running Oracle 817. Our application (Powerbuilder-based) uses the Oracle 817 ODBC driver to connect to the DB.
We normally set up a System DSN so that in situations where more than one user logs into the PC (using their own domain account), they will be able to use our application as well. In all of the situations in the past, we've never had multiple users needing access to the same computer at different times with different logins.
Well guess what? We now have a customer that has three people accessing the same computer at different times with different logins.
We set up the odbc with an Admin account, but only THAT Admin account can be used to access the DB using that System DSN.
We've tested our app with SQL Server (ODBC) and Sybase (ODBC) as well using different logins and they work fine, but our app fails to connect to the DB using the Oracle System DSN!
What is happening?????? We set up a File DSN for now and it works, but the customer prefers not having to save that info to a file.
Any suggestions?

1) How are you authenticating users? If you're using O/S authentication, do all the users have appropriate accounts on the database? (They do have the appropriate DB account)
2) Did you specify a username in the DSN? Did you mean to? If you want multiple users to log on with different database accounts, don't specify a username. (the app uses the same username and password to access the DB)
3) Can you elaborate on what "can't log on" means? I assume you get some sort of error message, so please post that. (it's telling us that the selected datasource is invalid.)
4) Can you simply create a user DSN for each Windows user account? We could and we did and it works fine that way, but the System DSN eliminates the need for that. We would have to set up DSNs for each PC (50+) that has more than one user.
Justin

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