[Wine] MDAC 2.7/2.8
Rick Knight
rick_knight at rlknight.com
Wed Oct 3 10:19:51 CDT 2007
Klaus Layer wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 01:17:42 Rick Knight wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had any success in getting Microsoft Data Access Components
>> 2.7 or 2.8 working? I have an application, FabTrolMRP, that looks like
>> it will work OK on wine except that it needs to connect to an MSSQL
>> database. Normal installation of this app on Windows boxes includes
>> running ODBC Data Source Administrator and making an SQL connection to
>> the FabTrol database. When I duplicate this on Linux under Wine
>> everything seems to go well and I am able to establish a connection to
>> the database but at the last step, the database cannot be found. Anyone
>> have any suggestion for getting past this last bit?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick Knight
>>
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> I have a application which requires MDAC due to the use of an MS ACCESS
> database. To make it work I installed MDAC with Dan Kegel's winetricks script
> from http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks. After the installation it was required
> to set manually the ODBC driver registry keys for the Microsoft Access
> Driver. I figured it out by comparing the ODBC registry branch of a native
> Windows registry with Wine. AppDB contains a howto
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8869. Maybe that
> helps you for MSSQL.
>
> Regards,
>
> Klaus
>
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Klaus,
Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try.
Rick
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