database connectivity.

I don't think you can. The problem is security...you don't want a remote application writing to someone's hard drive. It may also depend on whether you are web publishing or publishing to CD. Now what you can do is create a username and password within your Lectora app as a variable and then have it search for that. The downside of that approach though is that someone looking at the awt file would be able to view the username and pw...so to get around that you would publish as a single file exe file....that would be harder to hack. The downside of this approach is that you would have to republish and distribute each time you want to add a new set of accounts and passwords.

Jake,What do you want to do with that information once you have it?Lectora 2005 does SCORM Disconnected, that might help... Though it isn't Access.If you describe a little more about what you want to do, It is possible. You'll need some middleware to do it (it's not that hard, and someone can do it for you - fairly cheap ;) ) Though you will want to tell the user what is happening.