Equivalent to MS/ACCESS

2012-03-16 Thread geoffrey mendelson
Hi, I'm looking to do something that is easy in MS Access on a Linux system (using FOSS preferably). I have a RIGHT TO LEFT XLS file containing some fields that are English, some that are Hebrew and some that are mixed text. I would like to create an SQL database of that file with the

Re: Equivalent to MS/ACCESS

2012-03-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Oocalc, google docs spreadsheet. On Mar 16, 2012 10:38 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking to do something that is easy in MS Access on a Linux system (using FOSS preferably). I have a RIGHT TO LEFT XLS file containing some fields that are English, some

smb access problem

2012-03-16 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I have a D-link router (from Bezeq). It runs Samba so you can put a USB disk on the home network. When I access smb://10.0.0.138 from Firefox, I can see the files on the USB disk. But when I try the same thing from Dolphin, Krusader or Konqueror I'm asked for a username and password. I

solved (was - smb access problem)

2012-03-16 Thread Shlomo Solomon
OK - I continued playing around and discovered a solution (although I'm not sure I understand why it works). Instead of smb://10.0.0.138 or smb://10.0.0.1 I tried smb://user@10.0.0.138 and smb://user@10.0.0.1 and now I'm not being asked for a password. BTW - the same works for my xtreamer

Re: Equivalent to MS/ACCESS

2012-03-16 Thread vordoo
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/doityourself-it-guy/diy-create-easy-to-use-databases-with-libreoffice-base/1315 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/doityourself-it-guy/diy-create-data-entry-forms-for-databases-in-libreoffice-base/1331

Re: Equivalent to MS/ACCESS

2012-03-16 Thread vordoo
The mysql part was left out: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/doityourself-it-guy/diy-connect-libreoffice-base-to-a-mysql-database/1386 On 03/16/2012 04:05 PM, vordoo wrote: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/doityourself-it-guy/diy-create-easy-to-use-databases-with-libreoffice-base/1315

Re: solved (was - smb access problem)

2012-03-16 Thread Guy Gold
on Friday, March 16, 2012, Shlomo Solomon wrote: When I access smb://10.0.0.138 from Firefox, I can see the files on the USB disk. But when I try the same thing from Dolphin, Krusader or Konqueror I'm asked for a username and password. I discovered that if I enter user as the