Unable to refresh a crystal report on BOE which connect to an excel

Hi,
I have a crystal report which connect to an excel sheet on network. I am able to open it locally and refresh it. But after I upload it to the BOE, open it from infoview, I am not able to refresh it. it prompts for the database connection info.
I created an ODBC connection (choose MS excel and point to the excel file on network drive) on the BOE Server, it did not ask me for the login info and the server is responding. I also added this connection to BOE. But when I refresh the report from either infoview or CMC, it ask me for the database connection info with user login.
What should I do to solve this?
Thanks,
Vicky

Hi,
The data source is an excel sheet in a network drive. I am able to refresh this report from my client computer, but after upload it to BOE, the report cannot be refreshed. The datasource configuration of this report is like the following:
Server:      
server1\folder\excel.xls
Database: 
server1\folder\excel.xls
User: 
Password:
Because no user name and password are required to open the excel, I leave it blank. But when I refresh the report, it said that "the database logon information for this report is either incomplete or incorrect."
How can I be able to refresh this report from BOE?
Thanks,
Vicky

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