Crystal Reports ODBO Driver Access

Hi,
I follow the steps on the sbop_sm_config_help_75sp3.pdf to configuring the odbo driver to acces SSM data in PAS cube, but i did it on a cliente machine, after follow all step i go to crystal reports to create the conection to the cube and i get the message Failed to initialize (Returned E_FAIL (0x80004005)). check the SOFA.log and view this message Failed to locate the LogFormat settings in the registry. In this case, the LogFormat will use the default format.
Please anyone let me know what to do to correct this.
thanks in advance.
Martí

Hi Martin,
You can use the crystal in client machine to connect to SSM server, but i guess the drivers that support this ODBO connection has to be configured on the server. Because I've built some universes and webi reports using webi rich client connecting to SSM server. I remember that I haven't done any configuration in client. All the cofigurations are done in SSM Server.
Please let me know your comments.
Regards,
sanjay

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