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Okaloosa County FL has a small election scheduled for this Tuesday. They
are running GEMS 1.17.17 under Win 2000 and cannot get pre-election reports to
work. It gives the following error when previewing or printing the reports: Failed to connect to database Error (527) - Error in File: SQL server error. The problem seems identical to the one
reported by Cathi Smothers back in August 2001. Dmitry mentions a work
around, “login as administrator
on W2K machine and create a new System DSN under ODBC settings. After
that Crystal reports will work without errors.” I also see mentioned a
new GEMS install pack, but I cannot use it due to certification limitations. I want to try the workaround, but I need specific instructions on how to
setup and configure the new system DSN. I found the ODBC settings in Control
Panel, and got to the System DSN tab. Clicking ADD button takes me to the
select a driver for the data source screen.
As others have reported, I am
able to print the pre-election reports on my laptop running Win 2K. Mark Mark S
Earley Support Services Specialist Diebold Election Systems 850 422-2100 office/fax 850 322-3226 cell |