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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
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