I am having a problem connecting to a MS Access database using DBI and DBD::ODBC. I am able to connect when I set up a system DSN (via control panel Admin tools). Using this method I create a new System DSN called DYC using the driver "Microsoft Access Driver (*.mbd)" pointing to a file C:\dyc\dyc.mbd This works fine. My connect looks like this. 
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:DYC', '', '');

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But I would like connect to the database without having to register the database file. The ODBC.pm file indicates that this is possible and offers a small snippet of code as an example...
my $DSN = 'driver=Microsoft Access Driver(*.mdb);dbq=\\\\cheese\\g$\\p
+erltest.mdb';
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN", '','')
        or die "$DBI::errstr\n";

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The thing to the right of the "dbq=" is what is confusing me.
The doc refers to this as "Microsoft's UNC naming convention".
What would I put there to refer to the file c:\dyc\dyc.mbd?
I found another website that defines a UNC as
\\servername\sharename\path\filename
but does not offer any examples.
Can anyone help?

edited: Mon Jul 28 18:31:00 2003 by jeffa - code tags

In reply to DBD::ODBC connection prob by mifflin

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