Re: Very specific PHP ODBC -> Access 97 on Novell connection question.

Gabe, ODBC does not require IPX. It's a layer above and dosn't care. Creating a DSN in your odbc.ini on the linux box (after building PHP --with-iodbc) should work fine. Check out the HOWTO at www.iodbc.org. Best regards, Andrew Hill Director of Technology Evangelism OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com Universal Data Access & Data Integration Technology Providers "Gabe Da Silveira" <jiblet@visi.com> wrote in message news:B7A6E55D.DFC%jiblet@visi.com... > I work at a University where we just purchased some expensive reservation > management software. It uses Access 97 as a backend, with ASP pages for its > web module. Only problem is I want to basically write my own web stuff from > scratch using (surprise) PHP. > > Well, best I can figure, I need to create a System DSN on our mandrake linux > web server using the IODBC software found at iodbc.org. Sounds fairly > straightforward, right? Well, my sysadmin tells me that it won't work > because IPX connectivity is required to do this and that there isn't a good > IPX client for Novell (which is what we have the software running on). I > suspect he either doesn't know what he's talking about or he thinks I don't > know what I'm talking about and is just trying to shut me up so he doesn't > have to do more work. > > So can anyone shed any light on this? Does Access 97 require IPX > connectivity to use ODBC? We can't upgrade because the reservations > software only works with Access 97. Should this really be so hard? > > Thanks in advance for your help. >