System DSN setup

I installed Oracle8i Enterprise Server 8.1.6 Release 2 on W2K Advanced Server. I logged in to SQLPlus as system/manager and created a single table (Userid). I am using Oracle ODBC Driver 8.01.06.00 (must have been installed with the 8i Enterprise Edition?)From the trace it is clear that it is not picking up the password. The error is "ORA-01005 - null password given;logon denied". But I have configured the ODBC System DSN setup with Service name=o8ibegin and UserID=system/manager and Data Source Name=SiLicBkr. My IIS (ISAPI DLL) application uses MFC Odbc Classes with DSN=SiLicBkr and works fine with MS SQL Server and MS ACCESS. Any one can tell me where and how the password should be specified to the Oracle ODBC driver? Obviously being IIS app, password prompting at connect time is not an option!
Thanks,
Ganesh ([email protected])

Hi Justin, thanks for the prompt reply. I am still having problems with your first suggestion (I did not try the second option to do with registry). You mention a 'connect string', I assume this is to be entered in the Service field (because it does not accept such a string in Data Source Name field)? I have SiLicBkr in Data Source Name field, system in UserID field and I have tried different things for the Service Name field such as "DBQ=o8ibegin;PWD=manager" and also "DBQ=o8ibegin;PWD=manager;DSN=SiLicBkr". You may note, in your reply you missed out the service name "o8ibegin" altogether. After talking to others, I was told to try DBQ=o8ibegin in the connect string as shown above for service name. Now I get ORA-12154 TNS could not resolve service name...error. I may also mention, others told me to use Net Easy .. to specify connect string, but the closest thing I have is Net8 configuration assistant and while it shows o8ibegin, it does not provide any way for me to specify the connect string you mentioned! Any help will be appreciated. I have carefully looked at your online help in the ODBC administration setup, but not much luck.
Thanks,
Ganesh([email protected])
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Justin Cave ([email protected]):
The UserID field in the Driver Setup screen should be just the userid (system), not the userid/password (system/mananger)
There are two ways to specify the password. First, your connect string can be "DSN=SiLicBkr;PWD=manager".
Second, you can add a registry entry "Password" with the string value "manager" at \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\odbc\ODBC.INI\SiLicBkr\. Obviously, the former is the preferred solution.
It has been our feeling that allowing the password to be specified in the driver setup is generally a poor decision because of the security considerations. Since anyone at the machine can view the DSN configuration, exposing the password could allow users much more access to data than intended. Passwords that are compiled as part of an application, on the other hand, are much more difficult to achieve.
Justin Cave
ODBC Development<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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