I'm looking after a database while its author is on holiday. The server it's running on has no linked table manager, and the db is giving me an error - "ODBC --connnection to 'XYZ' failed." when I try to Domd.OpenQuery a query that's depending on a linked table.
I get the same message when I try to open said linked table. How do I find out where it's pointing to?
Open the table in design mode, accept the warning with "Yes", look into the "Properties" window of the table (not the one of the column -- in Access 2007, the table properties window is docked on the right-hand side of the window; in earlier versions there's a button in the tool bar, if I remember correctly). The "Description" field contains the ODBC string for the table.
You can use the connect property. in the immediate window:
?CurrentDb.TableDefs("LinkedTableName").Connect
The property is updatable.