Try the Sybase driver.
I can connect Perl to Microsoft SQL Server using Sybase drivers it so might work with Access.
Parts of this might be useful: http://www.peceny.de/misc/freetds.html
--Russell
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Les Mikesell
> Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:58 a.m.
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: Using an MS Access database from CentOS release 5.7
> (Final)
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Ron Young <ronyoung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > @Work requires me to manipulate the MS Access database (mdb) file
> > located on an XP box that is an integral part of a third party
> > application that is central to the business.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience doing so?
> >
> > I have used odbtp in the recent past but it is extremely difficult to
> > set up on the linux box as I learned when I recently upgraded from
> > CentOS 4.x to 5.x.
> >
> > Is there another way to get read and write access to the mdb file from
> > apache/php running from the linux box? A couple of hours of googling
> > last night has resulted in finding very expensive odbc drivers for the
> > linux box and nothing really foss except the odbc driver managers.
> >
>
> The best approach to doing this is to convert the access tables to use
> a sql server instead of the native mdb. This may or may not be
> practical/easy, but access can work over ODBC with the db on
> linux/postgresql (among others) where you would have a matching php
> client. Next best would be to write something to give web server
> access to the data you need on the windows box, and access it remote via
> http.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
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