Re: Helping a user migrate an odbc app to Wine
Am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2007 08:23 schrieb Kai Blin: On Thursday 08 February 2007 01:42, Dan Kegel wrote: Can somebody help this (german-speaking) fellow: http://www.unixboard.de/vb3/showthread.php?t=26943 He says his company's internal application requires you to input a DSN when installing it, and he doesn't know how to come up with a DSN under Wine. The german speaking part is not a problem, I just don't know my way around that odbc stuff, not even on win32 native. Presumably he doesn't want to mess with Unixodbc, he just wants to keep using the Microsoft drivers...? I figure using the appropriate native dlls would work? I vaguely remember Windows had a tool to set up odbc drivers, what was the exe called? it is located in windows/system32 normally. Something like odbcconf.exe or odbcad32.exe. With one of those you can create a DSN and after that provide it to the app. I post a similiar reply in the unixboard. cu, Stefan -- Dipl.-Inform. Stefan Munz. . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITOMIG GbR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.itomig.de Sand 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mobil: +49 178 729 72 72 D-72076 Tübingen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pgpdnygYp454c.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Helping a user migrate an odbc app to Wine
On 2/8/07, Rolf Kalbermatter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ouch, I wouldn't see how this could work. Running the Microsoft drivers together with the whole Microsoft ODBC manager under Wine too would probably be the only way to get that working. But I think it is safe to assume that that would require quite some work in Wine before this could possibly work, not to talk about license issues. Rolf Kalbermatter This is totally not true and it is right there in documentation. (User guide) All you do is install mdac downloadable from Microsoft.com, or any MS product like Office. Than run odbcad32.exe to set your DSNs. that's it, works like a charm and is the only known way to man to connect to an MSSQL server from Unix. After you install MDAC, you can also install Oracle's drivers for windows but that is a bit more tricky, just like on windows. Also search archives it was there before. Free Life Boaz
RE: Helping a user migrate an odbc app to Wine
Boaz Harrosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is totally not true and it is right there in documentation. (User guide) Ok! I stand corrected. Sorry. All you do is install mdac downloadable from Microsoft.com, or any MS product like Office. Than run odbcad32.exe to set your DSNs. I had expected some of these drivers to make use of private APIs that might not be available under Wine. That's it, works like a charm and is the only known way to man to connect to an MSSQL server from Unix. Well there is at least FreeTDS unless you need to communicate with the server through other means than TCP/IP. Rolf Kalbermatter
Helping a user migrate an odbc app to Wine
Can somebody help this (german-speaking) fellow: http://www.unixboard.de/vb3/showthread.php?t=26943 He says his company's internal application requires you to input a DSN when installing it, and he doesn't know how to come up with a DSN under Wine. Presumably he doesn't want to mess with Unixodbc, he just wants to keep using the Microsoft drivers...? - Dan
Re: Helping a user migrate an odbc app to Wine
On Thursday 08 February 2007 01:42, Dan Kegel wrote: Can somebody help this (german-speaking) fellow: http://www.unixboard.de/vb3/showthread.php?t=26943 He says his company's internal application requires you to input a DSN when installing it, and he doesn't know how to come up with a DSN under Wine. The german speaking part is not a problem, I just don't know my way around that odbc stuff, not even on win32 native. Presumably he doesn't want to mess with Unixodbc, he just wants to keep using the Microsoft drivers...? I figure using the appropriate native dlls would work? I vaguely remember Windows had a tool to set up odbc drivers, what was the exe called? Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin, kai Dot blin At gmail Dot com WorldForge developerhttp://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin/ -- Will code for cotton. pgprUtInjcZhQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
