Re: No OLE DB providers listed when creating a Linked Server

From: Sue Hoegemeier (Sue_H_at_nomail.please)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:19:42 -0600

I've seen others reporting the problem when upgrading to Win 2003. It
was generally due to one of the MDAC dlls not getting updated but the
others getting updated. You can try running the component check to
check your MDAC setup or try reinstalling whatever version of MDAC you
are suppose to be running. You can download MDAC versions and the
component checker from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/mdac/default.aspx

-Sue

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:43:07 -0700, "GYatabe"
<GYatabe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am having a problem trying to create a linked server. When I open the
>dialog to create a new linked server, there are no providers listed in the
>"Other Providers" dropdown. FYI we just upgraded from Win Server 2000 to
>Server 2003. We are running SQL 2000. Has anyone had this happen to them
>before? I am placing this in this forum because it has to do with Linked
>servers. If you have a better forum for this to be posted, please notify in
>this thread and I'll post there. Thanks for your help.
>
>Grant

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