I have a Perl script running on Windows 2003 using ActiveState Perl. It connects to a remote SQL database to retrieve data. It works fine when run on the command line, but when I run it from a web browser I get this error "No such file or directory" 
my $connection = new Win32::ODBC($DSN);

print qq(Content-type: text/html\n\n);

if (!$connection)
{
    print "Could not open connection to DSN because of [$!]";
}

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I'm guessing that this is due a permissions issues, when I run it from the command line it is running under my own user, but when I run it in a browser it runs under the "web browser" users. I have a similar script running on my server that connects to a local database, and it works fine.
Can you direct me to where I should look to add/change permissions?

This problem is driving me crazy, please can someone help, too many sleepness nights have passed so far!!

In reply to Connection to SQL not working through web browser by springcake

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