Using Password with DSNless connection to Access DB

Question

Has anyone actually used a password to connect to a local Access database? I keep getting the "Not a valid password" error.
I have created an application for distribution and do not want to allow the users to change my database, so I put a password on it. Because the users can create new databases with the program, I would like to use a DSNless connection to allow the user to change the databases easily.
I have successfully worked with the database through a DSN connection with the password, and with the DSNless connection without a password, but am unable to get in with a DSNless connection and a password.
I have read as many postings and topics using the main key words as I can find in the APIs, forums, tutorials, bug databases, etc., but this topic is not addressed.
I have tried as many permutations on the advice I did find, and nothing works so far. Here are a few of the tries I made:
String theurl = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={MicroSoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=c:\\demo\demo.mdb;Password=\"demo\"";
con = DriverManager.getConnection(theurl)
String userid = "";
String password = "demo" 
String theurl = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={MicroSoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=c:\\demo\demo.mdb;"
con = DriverManager.getConnection(theurl,userid,password);What am I doing wrong?
I would appreciate any help I can get.

Answer 1

I'm sorry, I should have posted my entire code. As you can see, I have included the Class.forName method. The password that I set on was on the database; I did not create any users. The question about copying a database vs. creating a new one is moot here, because this database was created independently from any others. (However, you are correct in that I am actually copying a "Master" version of the database, not actually creating a totally new one.)
Here is my code:
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import sun.jdbc.odbc.*;
public class testPassword {
  private String theurl;
  private String user = "";
  private String password = "";
  private Connection con;
  private Statement stmt;
  public testPassword() {
    try {
      Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
          theurl = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={MicroSoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};" +
            "DBQ=c:\\demo\\demo.mdb;Password=\"demo\"";
      boolean found = false;
      con = DriverManager.getConnection(theurl);
      try {
       stmt = con.createStatement();
       String pword = "";
        String query = "SELECT password FROM SysInfo";   // system Info
        ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
        while (rs.next()) {
          pword = rs.getString("password");
        rs.close();
        stmt.close();
        con.close();
        System.out.println("Inner Password: " + pword);
        System.exit(0);
      } catch (Exception e) {
          System.out.println("Inner failed " + e.toString());
          System.out.println("Outer Password: " + password);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        System.out.println("Outer failed " + ex.toString());
        System.out.println("URL: " + theurl);   
  public static void main(String [] args) {
       testPassword app = new testPassword();
}BTW, for those replies that I keep seeing all over the forum that say that you MUST create a DSN, that is NOT correct. Please do a search on "dsnless" or "dsn-less" and you will see that it is totally feasible.