if you use QGIS compiled against gdal 1.9 (as it is now in osgeo4w) you'll get out of the box support for the personal geodatabase format. I just tested and it seems to work fine.
cheers -- Giovanni -- On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 09:30 -0700, haubourg wrote: > Hi all, > For my own use, I access mdb's through ODBC access and it works fine. It is > not quite user-friendly since you first have to define a user or system dsn > and then fill the connection form in qgis. > Bigger problem for me, I deployed QGis on 5 Citrix servers (300 users), and > user-defined-DSN's are disabled for security reasons.. Access to the MS DSN > manager is locked too.. > *So I have no way to allow qgis users to read MS Access mdb's. * > > I have seen that OGR 1.9 allows optionnal direct access connections: > http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html . > > So, my question: Is it reasonnable (technically) to ask for direct access to > mdb's databases in Qgis? Is it hard work or not? Do we need to use Java > Jackcess library as mentionned in OGR doc? Is it an OGR issue instead of > Qgis? > > I would be pleased to know if I'm alone with this concern.. thanks for your > feedbacks > > /NB: I do want classical access to non geographical tables and not esri's > mdb layers. / > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/direct-mdb-read-in-QGis-tp4637313p4637313.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer