I think that this ODBC driver cannot handle views!
That is one reason why I personally use Open Office Base (that can connect with JDBC – and here VIEWs work fine) if I need printing facilities for instance.
Maybe MyODBC 5.04 will work with Views. It is supposed to! the README tells:
“The short term plan is to have C/ODBC v5 support all major features of the existing C/ODBC v3 driver as well as flagship MySQL-5.0 features including stored procedures and views.”
I do not know Access 2003, but I doubt that 2000 and 2002 will ever be able to understand VIEWs.
MyODBC 5.04 is an alpha. I tried 5.02 and that was not easy to install!
But looks like 5.04 is improved in this respect!
http://mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.0.html