Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed Mdk 8.2 on my office m/c dual booting > with Windows Nt Server 4. I want to start using Linux > for all my office work. But since everything in my > office is MS based, I am having slight trouble in > that. > > Following are the requirements for the same. Someone > please help: > > (1.) I administer MS-SQL Server 7 database for that I > need query analyzer (at least) to do queries. I have > developed an application in Java using ODBC to connect > to MS-SQL server 7. The application is nothing but an > equivalent of Query Analyzer of SQL. Now I want to run > this application in Linux. For that I would need ODBC > drivers of SQL Server 7.0 Any pointers please.
Check openodbc.org > (2.) Internet access is through MS-Proxy and I have > station restrictions also as net access is not for > everybody because of limited resources. Some sites are > also on company intranet. Proxy authentication is not > required for these sites, but for internet sites it is > required. My problem is - how do i log on to my NT > domain using my NT domain login and since my domain > login has station restrictions the name of the machine > should be shown to PDC as my office machine name. At > present my host name for linux is ajitabh.mdk.com. My > NT machine name is ajitabh_etb_sda and my domain login > is ajitabhp. Your server should support to login to you. I am not too sure about this. > (3.) Our e-mail server is MS-Exchange 5.0 and we > access mail through Outlook 2000. I asked my System > Administrator about this and he told me that Exchange > is does not follow POP or IMAP protocol but follows a > different protocol called MAPI(Messaging API). How do > I connect to my Exchange server and download my mail > to access. Though we have a web access to the exchange > server but that is quite slow and I will not be able > to download my mails also. Use Evolution mail client. From this you can connect to Exchange server from Linux. > (4.) MS Word and MS-Excel are also required. Though I > can read MS-Word files in Linux(I don't know for > Excel) but is there something which can save files in > these formats. > Use OpenOffice(more details http://openoffice.org) You can open .doc, .xls and .ppt files in openoffice.. HTH Cheers. Mahantesh. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
