Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:06:01 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: database@freebsd.org Subject: ODBC and StarOffice Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102101354290.2415-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. Well, I regret bothering you again with this question, but it is very important to me to get an answer about a suitable solution. Background ---------- We use several tbales for our meteorological research on a MySQL server (MySQL 3.23.32). The server is a FreeBSD SMP machine running FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. So far, the server operating system and the data= base are perfect. Our clients are a mixture from Windows 2000 and FreeBSD clients and a handful Linux boxes. All FreeBSD systems are running FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. Mostly all Windows machines use StarOffice 5.2 to access the database server via MyODBC 2.50.36. Many use M$ Office and MyODBC. The FreeBSD boxes have the StarOffice 5.2 port installed, running under Linux emulation. MyODBC is compiled against unixODBC version 2.0.4. Problem ------- Main problem is: no one of the FreeBSD clients using StarOffice is able to gain access to the database server via ODBC. When trying to select ODBC in StarOffice's database facility it returns an error that says to check installation about libodbc.so. When trying again the same procedure immediately after the first try it reports the same error, but refers to a file ".". It seems to me that StarOffice can not find the suitable ODBC driver or its ini-file, but the user who uses StarOffice has already a proper set up .odbc.ini file. I was told to use a Linux MyODBC/unixODBC installation due the fact StarOffice is Linux code. But I do not find suitable rpm archives around here to try this. Does anyone out here run StarOffice successfully under FreeBSD with an ODBC driver installed to connect a SQL server? Thanks in advance, Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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