On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 01:00, Nabil wrote: > I tried to make it direct connection, but this way uses many ports that the > firewall won't allowed.. > He said for security reasons that he can't open those ports to prevents > hackers to use them ... do u think this is a true ? any advice what port the > direct connection uses??? does it uses NetBIOS? > Your security admin knows your network and needs better than us...from what you told us, he's not doing anything dumb.
> if he was right ... so I have to change to ODBC > I heard about FreeDTS and iODBC, but I need some advice and notes to make it > easy for me.. > iODBC and FreeDTS work GREAT!!! I've gone through the hassle of installing it on a Mandrake Machine, and it wasn't a huge pain in the keyster. On Mandrake 9.0, the drivers and RPMS were outdated, and they were flakey. However, apt-get install unixodbc in Debian unstable works like a charm, if you are willing to give up ODBCConfig and DataManger(I or II). > Please HELP.. and your valuable comments will be appreciated.. > > Nabil > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
