[GRLUG] LibreOffice Base connectivity problem

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:50 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> 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,

No.  The unixODBC functionality is very solid; using ODBC on LINUX works
well.  It accomplished the same purpose as on Windows - it unifies the
configuration of your data sources into one spot.


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