On Saturday 17 September 2005 3:51 am, Robert Lewko wrote: > On September 16, 2005 12:38 pm, Nick Wiltshire wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > > > I just got off the phone with a client who was wisely running an access > > database from an actively used PC in the office. It crashed. Hard. > > > > I delivered a new machine to them yesterday so it turns out they have an > > extra box laying around and I'd like to reccomend to them that they run > > their backoffice in Linux [yay this post is on topic] > > > > The issue is, how do I allow their windows boxes to connect to a database > > on the Linux server? Do I use ODBC? Is there any gotchas? > > > > Nick > > It depends which database, but both MySql and PostgreSQL have ODBC modules. > Each Windoze client will have to have the ODBC manager set to talk to the > DB on the linux box. >
I prefer postgres, but if it's as easy as ODBC it shouldn't be an issue, other than migrating the access db... _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
