From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 8 5:57:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.psknet.com (orion.psknet.com [207.198.61.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51AC537B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 05:57:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2684 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2000 13:57:27 -0000 Received: from abyss.dashit.net (HELO abyss) (209.100.22.250) by orion.psknet.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 2000 13:57:27 -0000 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Mark Newton" , Cc: Subject: RE: odbc connection for ms access clients? Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:58:57 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: <20001109000433.A19273@internode.com.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by Pulaski Networks (http://www.psknet.com) using AMaViS (http://www.amavis.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This would work if the customer's machine was up on the 'net all the time and easily accessable by the FreeBSD server. Somehow, I don't think the original poster had this in mind. What I've done in the past, was to create a MySQL database for the customer to use. Then, through MyODBC, the customer is able to manipulate their database from Access. If you are talking about publishing an Access database to frontpage under unix, you're SOL, it's not going to happen. If you have a lot of demand for frontpage/database sites, I'd reccomend that you invest in Windows2000 and MSSQL, or educate your users to use MySQL and Perl/PHP. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short. ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Newton ** Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:35 AM ** To: peter@virtual.sysadmin-inc.com ** Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** Subject: Re: odbc connection for ms access clients? ** ** ** On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:14:11AM -0500, ** peter@virtual.sysadmin-inc.com wrote: ** ** > I've got a few customers who want to publish their ms ** access database to ** > their site. On an NT server, it's a mindless point and ** click. Do we have ** > anything for freebsd that will create the same kind of end user ** > experience, or at least make it possible to publish an ** access database and ** > link it to a website? ** ** /usr/ports/databases/unixODBC ** ** There's also an ODBC DBD driver for Perl DBI on CPAN. ** ** - mark ** ** -- ** Mark Newton Email: ** newton@internode.com.au (W) ** Network Engineer Email: ** newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) ** Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 ** "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message