Yes, I did. They are found and I made a change to an existing user in the first DB table, saved it, and it made an impact. So I believe the website is connecting the user logon of the local machine to the Access Database and giving the user their specific toolbar that way. I am still unable to add myself or any new employees correctly so there must be another step or another database that I need to edit. The website recognizes the user but there is nothing in the toolbar.

This may just be trial and error, trying to find the correct database/table. Unless you know how to "trace" each step the logon takes, such as where it looks along the way.

 // Absolute path of our mdb file 
    $cur_dir = addslashes(dirname(__FILE__)); 
    $db_file = "\\Software\\...\\DataGate.mdb";    
    // Establish the connection 
    $conn = new COM("ADODB.Connection") or die("Cannot start ADO" . odbc_errormsg());   
    $conn->Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Jet OLEDB:Database Password=****;Data Source=\\Software\\....\\DataGate.mdb;");

    #$conn->Open("PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.3.2;DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};USer ID=****;PWD=****;DBQ="("\\Software\\....\\DataGate.mdb;"));
    // Absolute path of our mdb file 
    $cur_dir2 = addslashes(dirname(__FILE__)); 
    $db_file2 = "\\Software\\....\\DataGate.mdb";
    #$provider2 = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" . $db_file; "UID=****;PWD=****;"    
    // Establish the connection 
    $conn2 = new COM("ADODB.Connection") or die("Cannot start ADO" . odbc_errormsg());  
    #$conn2->Open($provider); 
    $conn2->Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Jet OLEDB:Database Password=****;Data Source=\\....\\Refurb Production2002_D.mdb;");

Here is one of the php files that contain a new connection. All other files have the exact same pattern.

My mistake in the above. The start-server.bat file doesn't "connect" to mysqld-opt.exe, but it does run a start command followed by --defaults-file=.../bin/my-small.cnf

While looking into indexing, I found the start-server.bat file that loads at boot. It connects to mysqld-opt.exe and it pointed me to the ...\udrive\usr\local\mysql\data\mysql file path where there are many files, each with .frm .MYD and .MYI extensions. The type says Visual Basic Form File, but then why would these be in the mysql folder? Especially when I double click and VB won't open them?

It is not in that .php file, nor any of the others I've checked so far. The only times I see

 $conn 

are with

 $rs = $conn->Execute