Wine MSSQL VB

[Nikolay Sivov]

kumaresan c wrote:
>     I have a program that accesses Mssql 2000 database from Windows 
> 2003 server. Now I need to run this program in Linux.
>     I setup wine, mdac28 etc.
>     I can install the program with one error:
>              ODBC's SQLRemoveDriverManager Failed.
>
>     I can also create a system DSN in Linux using odbcad32.exe under wine.
>
>     But when I run the program the following error occurs:
>          Specifed SQL Server not found.
>
>     The code I used is:
>          Db.open "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Persist Security Info=True; User 
> ID=sa; Initial Catalog=ForLinuxTest;Data Source=WINSERVER.VISUALWIN.
> TESTDOMAIN; Password=kumaresan"
>
>     If I modify this code to use DSN, It looks for a unixODBC DSN 
> instead of wine DSN.
>
>     What should I do?
>
>     Help me if you can...............
>
>
> ---Kumaresan.
There's no need to always setup DSN names. I remember that it works with 
directly provided connection string to oledb provider.
Your connection doesn't contain DSN as I see. The main question here - 
does oledb provider work?