[GRLUG] LibreOffice Base connectivity problem

[L. V. Lammert]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:45 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > "The connection to the data source "permissions3" [because this is the
> > third time I've tried to connect to "permissions"] could not be
> > established.
> > 	"[unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default
> > driver specified."
> > I don't see any details in the LibreOffice Base help about what do do
> > here, nor any steps that I seem to have skipped.
> > What am I missing?
>
Why are you trying to use ODBC? That is only appropriate when connecting
to a remote Windoze machine, and adds a level of configuration complexity.

Uuse MySQL native for a MySQL database (the choise above the ODBC option).

	Lee

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