Keith,

Thanks for replying.

Doesn't look like it.  Never played with Access security.  Network-level
user security has always handled permissions so I never had to.

Here's where things are, now:

When I posted the first question, I had only 1 user (Admin) set up in the
test database.  (Probably why it was ignoring the UID part of the
OpenDatabase command.)  When I double-clicked the database to open it
manually, it asked only for the password.  When I used VBA to open it, it
opened as long as the pwd was correct.

Since then, I used the wizard to set up a new user (BruceS) and assigned a
pwd (abcd).  Now, when I double-click the database to open it manually, it
gives me a 3033 (no permissions) error.  It doesn't prompt me for uid or pwd.
I can only open it by clicking on the .ldb file that the wizard created,
where it does ask for both uid & pwd.

Now, however, the VBA OpenDatabase command also fails with 3033, even when
using valid UID/pwd info in the parameter.  Just for kicks, I tried pointing
it the .ldb file, instead.  It errors saying that it's not a valid database
format.

Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing here.  Can you point me in the right
direction?

Thanks,
Bruce