Re: Connecting Unix to windows.

2004-02-10 Thread Peter Hircock
Hello I found DBI-Proxy very useful for this. On the windows machine, you run the DBI-Proxy server which connects to the windows DB( My case it was an ODBC connection ). The Unix box can then run using DBI. Peter > Dear Lee - > >> "Lee" == Lee Swale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lee>

Re: Connecting Unix to windows.

2004-02-10 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Lee - > "Lee" == Lee Swale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lee> I am trying to connect to a windows DB [...] from UNIX [...] Lee> Do you know if this is possible? It's certainly possible, but the last time I used it it was awkward at best. The solution I know is to install ODBC on

Connecting Unix to windows.

2004-02-10 Thread Lee Swale
I am trying to connect to a windows DB (Sage line 100: an accounting package) from UNIX (Perl) and all I've been supplied with is MS Access ODBC drivers. Do you know if this is possible? Can DBD::ODBC do this without touching the Access drivers or is that how DBD::ODBC works (connecting one set