I am not sure about such an answer, but what I'm sure about is that you can access those two databases with any ODBC supporting them WITHOUT FrontPage - FP extensions mostly are there to be able to publish a site which was developed with FP - Therefore, forms developed under FP requires the FP extensions, otherwise they won't work, etc....
Kal -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Adamson Sent: Sun, November 18, 2001 3:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] FrontPage and Database problems Arn't frontpage extentions designed to use Access or MS-SQL database sources? If so, thats why it no go on Linux. Paul Adamson interStaQ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Rahill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] FrontPage and Database problems > > >Nope, I get a phone call from the client, saying that the Database > >components are not working in FrontPage. (Should be Insert menu, and > >Database) but the Database portion is greyed out. > >So I hop on a PC that I have here, and verify. Connect to local web > >server... Insert - Database components show up. > > AFAIK, the database functions in the FrontPage Extensions that are needed > are not included with Unix/Linux versions of the extensions. > > I think your only choices are: > 1. Tell him to find another provider who has Windows boxes. > 2. Tell him Frontpages stinks as an authoring tool and to upgrade/switch to > Dreamweaver UltraDev if he want to do design and databases. (my $0.02) > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers > _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
