With Access, you can also use a filename as a "DSN" and don't need to use ODBC-Manager but handle it from the script, e.g. from perldoc DBD::ODBC

# as UNC (beware the proper rights)
my $DSN = 'driver=Microsoft Access Driver(*.mdb);dbq=\\\\cheese\\g$\\p
+erltest.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";
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