# as UNC (beware the proper rights) my $DSN = 'driver=Microsoft Access Driver(*.mdb);dbq=\\\\cheese\\g$\\perltest.mdb'; # or just as plain filename: my $DSN = 'driver=Microsoft Access Driver(*.mdb);dbq=g:\\perltest.mdb'; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN", '','') or die "$DBI::errstr\n";