ads wizard: Failure to open SQL Server with given connect string

Hi, sorry but I am just getting my feet wet with the ADS wizard. I have managed to get the PPC emulator running the ADS wizard and have the emulator ActiveSync connected with desktop. Port 1024 opens from the emulator to the desktop. On the ADS wiz I can connect to the device .sdf. WHen I try to connect to the desktop I am getting a connection failure in the ADS wiz log and after stepping through the code VS watch window gives the following message for the SQL exception:

Message "Failure to open SQL Server with given connect string. [ connect string =
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\\Northwind.accdb; Jet OLEDBystem
Database=C:\\Documents and Settings\\vhaporellinr.POR-EE778886\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Access\\system.mdw ]" string

I do not know enough to know where to go next to move past this no-doubt simple problem. Can you direct me to the appropriate docs or refs to start digging into looking for solutions

Is there a particular Northwind.mdb file that is supposed to be used

Are we talking some kind of permissions issues on the database

I was assuming I did not have to install SQL Server 2005 and the SQL Server management console( ) to do development with the SSCE. Is that correct

THank you for any helping pointers you can provide.

Ran into snags on Tutorial 1. Posted problem in this forum. Tutorial 2 worked pretty good. Dropped back to fussing around with access synchcronizer app. Messed with mdw file and other configuration settings. Changed to Access 2003 mdb file. Now application will not run on emulator at all. Same IIS problem when running on device.

I am going to temporarily abandon syncronizing to access database for now. One of these days I will try it on another computer, on a private network.

I tried the ADS wizard installation on another computer on a private network. Tried Access 2003. At first received similar problems. Went back to readme.doc and examined it more precisely. Checked the registry, things looked ok. A Desktop IE would not open to the ads desktop server port. Went back to the XP Firewall settings. Added a 1024 port in the exceptions tab. Ran the ADS wizard exe on the PPC emulator ( had not tried that before---always had used VS2005 debugger). The ADS wizard connected up to both device and desktop databases and pulled a 6MB database down to the device!

Things are looking pretty good right now on this system. Will check out the other machine/network Firewall settings in a few days. So far, it looks like it probably was operator error on my part causing all my problems.

Thank you Microsoft for investing in this SQL Server Compact Edition and providing this ADS Wizard application and source. The technology looks like the perfect fit for two of my current projects.

Today I went back to previous problem system. I got the ADS Wizard to run on the PocketPC emulator after tweaking the firewall network card port settings and downloading and installing the .CAB file that ships with the syncapp package.

The ADS Wizard.exe that the .CAB file installs works great now on the emulator and will suffice until I need a custom app.