Connecting to MySQL using Open Office Base via ODBC...

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 18:51 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/29/2007 08:55 PM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for that info. It's appalling if Ubuntu has messed up OpenOffice.
> > 
> > I'll like to try the official version - do you have any instructions for
> > doing so?
> > 
> > Also I can choose to connect to my database using ODBC or JDBC. Since
> > JDBC doesn't work could I use JDBC?
> > If so, how do I make it work?
> > Honestly I don't even understand what JDBC or ODBC is, I just wanna
> > connect to my database :)
> > 
> 
> Any progress/comments/questions?
> 
> BTW if you are configuring a new server, I highly recommend Webmin:
> http://www.webmin.com/
> I've been using it on the new LAMP server that I'm testing & I have to
> say that so far I'm quite impressed. It's made working with this thing
> considerably easier :-) As an example, I installed kubuntu on the same
> system in order to help somone having problems with (U)OOo; afterwards I
> cleaned kubuntu out of the system
> (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome). That blew out the mySQL
> sever et al, but it was simple enough to add them back in via Webmin &
> they are all working again just fine.
> 
> Note: my test server is in a local lan/intranet behind a hardware
> firewall & no, I've not yet dug into the security aspects/issues of
> using Webmin. That said, I'd appreciate comments/suggestion from others
> regarding Webmin.
> 
> 

Hi

I'm sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.

I wanted to thank you for such a detailed post. I haven't had time to do
any of it yet. I'm currently looking for work and being blitzed with
interviews. Perhaps this coming weekend I'll have time enough to solve
my problems.

As for webmin:  Personally I've tried it, I prefer the command line.
Naturally it is another security issue as it's another service listening
on port 10000(?). I think if you change the default port and use good
passwords you'll be OK. Should probably start a separate thread for that
though!

Thanks again for the detailed help, it's much appreciated.

Regards

Gabe

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