Ignore other wisdom seeking, it was connecting to the server but then failing at the first statment here is an example: 
use DBI();


$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:TLRS",'sa','') or die "$DBI::errstr\n";
****$sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM users where user like'sparkie' a
+nd passwd like 'foo' ");
$sth->execute();
while($ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
{
    print"$ref->{'user'},$ref->{'passwd'},$ref->{'allow'}\n";
}
$sth->finish();

$dbh->disconnect;

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It seems to fail when it reaches ****. The Idea is to finally use a sort of password control to gain access to certain areas of the site. (I know the way that I am doing it is probably not very secure but I am just playing to try and get some ideas on how to use perl and databases) The one thing that I don't understand is why it was working earlier but not now.
p.s. Thanks to c-era on the different way of connecting.
Cheers
Sparkie

In reply to Problems connecting to server 2 by Sparkie

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