I'm not an administrator when UAC enabled

Hello,

I don't know if this is the right place to post this question but if not may
someone could advise me where would be a better place.

I have a VB6 application that creates an ODBC System datasource on the fly.
However, with UAC enabled it will not create the ODBC datasource. I believe
the problem may be associated with the fact that it thinks I am not an
Administrator (with UAC on) but I am! I added some code to test using the
funtion "IsUserAnAdmin" and it returns no when UAC is enabled and yes when
UAC is turned off. I'm thinking if I could find out why it says I'm not an
administrator (and I could get it elevated), that I would be able to
programmatically add a data source.

Any ideas?


Thanks,

Vic

"Vic" <vic@showsec.com> wrote in message
news8512528-B37F-4FC9-9F33-C214D9F49B00@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I don't know if this is the right place to post this question but if not
> may someone could advise me where would be a better place.
>
> I have a VB6 application that creates an ODBC System datasource on the
> fly. However, with UAC enabled it will not create the ODBC datasource. I
> believe the problem may be associated with the fact that it thinks I am
> not an Administrator (with UAC on) but I am! I added some code to test
> using the funtion "IsUserAnAdmin" and it returns no when UAC is enabled
> and yes when UAC is turned off. I'm thinking if I could find out why it
> says I'm not an administrator (and I could get it elevated), that I would
> be able to programmatically add a data source.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vic
>


I was able to resolve this by adding a User DSN programmatically instead of
a System DSN