please help: .mdb access problem

[Hedwig Matl]

Hello and thanks for your reply!

I edited the path for my message. I use the absolute path, which looks 
like this (I also tried relative paths):

---
CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
CONNECTION "c:\ms4w\apps\test2\mdb\Abtenau.mdb"
---

This is the error I get when I try to open the file with ogrinfo:

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C:\>ogrinfo c:\ms4w\apps\test2\mdb\Abtenau.mdb
FAILURE:
Unable to open datasource `c:\ms4w\apps\test2\mdb\Abtenau.mdb' with the 
following drivers.
   -> ESRI Shapefile
   -> MapInfo File
   -> UK .NTF
   -> SDTS
   -> TIGER
   -> S57
   -> DGN
   -> VRT
   -> AVCBin
   -> REC
   -> Memory
   -> CSV
   -> GML
   -> ODBC
   -> PostgreSQL
   -> MySQL
---

Thanks a lot for your help
Hedwig

Frank Warmerdam schrieb:
> Hedwig Matl wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm new to mapserver and already somewhat at a loss.
>> If I try to access a .mdb file (via map file and ogrinfo) I get 
>> following error:
>>
>> msOGRFileOpen(): OGR error. Open failed for OGR connection 
>> `c:\..\test.mdb'. File not found or unsupported format.
> 
> Hedwig,
> 
> Is this the literal error you are seeing, or have you edited the path
> out replacing it with ".."?  If this is the literal error then it seems
> that the path to the file is being constructed improperly.  It may be
> that mapserver is trying to apply a SHAPEPATH relative path.  I would
> suggest you use an absolute path tot he file.  What does your CONNECTION
> string look?
> 
> Best regards,