A couple questions I have not asked about this issue? Do both the user@localhost and localhost need access to the Sql database. I am at a loss as to why everytime I run this process, it tells me that I have an invalid preshare key. Do they preshare keys need to be in quotes. If I have a user called radius with a password of radiustest and my localhost preshare is BASEBALL, then would my syntax be, radtest radius radiustest localhost 1645 BASEBALL ? Or woudl I need to put quotes around the alpha characters. I cannot move on until I get this resolved obviously and I am not sure where to try. I can get issues resolved with the SQL portion, but to get it to see the local host, I am at a loss. If anyone can think of anything else I can possibly try, please let me know. If not, I appreciate all your efforts. Dwane