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Please help... I'm running Windows 2003 on a dell laptop..and when it boots up AND I'm NOT connected to a network, my java routines do not find the mssqldriver. (When I reboot AND I AM connected, it works fine). The mySQL driver which I also use works fine in this environment (connected/unconnected)....it's just the mssql drive I'm having problems with.. Here is the error when I run some java code connecting to java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:199) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141) at Connect.getConnection(Connect.java:38) at Connect.displayDbProperties(Connect.java:56) at Connect.main(Connect.java:112) Error Trace in getConnection() : com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver Error: No active Connection java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:199) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141) at Connect.getConnection(Connect.java:38) at Connect.runStmt(Connect.java:82) at Connect.main(Connect.java:113) Error Trace in getConnection() : com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver java.lang.NullPointerException at Connect.runStmt(Connect.java:86) at Connect.main(Connect.java:113) Does anyone have any experience w/ Win 2003 and what they've done to clamp down on security..which may have caused this problem?? I can't get an active connection for some reason!! Any help/direction wld be greatly appreciated. William