On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 02:04 -0500, Rubilac wrote: > [quote]Have you installed ODBC drivers for it? [/quote] > > I installed something called JDBC. > JDBC is not ODBC. JDBC is only useful for programs written in Java. > I'm not sure if this changes anything. > Look here: http://www.microsoft.com/data/odbc/ More info here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity http://www.datadirect.com/ http://www.connectionstrings.com/ To make an ODBC connection you need to have: - installed the ODBC core code (probably DLLs) - the ODBC Data Services Manager - installed the ODBC driver for your database - configured a Data Source using the Data Services Manager > I also have openoffice data installed, but cannot connect to this > database using the ODBC type connection there either. > Of course. See above, but OO will use native Linux ODBC while Wine apps almost certainly need Windows ODBC. Did you actually search for information about ODBC before posting here? I suspect not. Martin
