Considering there are Opensource tools for import/export from linux databases (MySQL) to Access databases: http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-02/pr_mysql_01.html
It should be possible to access an Access Database directly from a linux box (even if it is stored on a Linux server). Jon Carnes === On Friday 15 February 2002 01:00 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Depends on what the definition of "using windows" is -- with ODBC you > still need Access (or, more correctly, Microsoft Jet) running to serve the > database, unless things have changed since I was doing Access work (3-4 > years ago). So you can read/write from a linux client, but a windows > server has to host the database itself. AFAIK there's no way around that > -- that is, no linux-capable program that can read/write Access files. > > ap > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA > > On 15 Feb 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 12:30, Vestal, Roy L. wrote: > > > Is there a way to access a Microsoft Access database under linux > > > without Wine/Win4Lin/VMware? > > > > > > I have an Access97 db that I need to leave in that format for sharing > > > but I'd like to access it without using Windows. > > > > Hmmm how about ODBC? > > > > http://www.easysoft.com/products/2002/main.phtml > > > > -- > > *********************************************************** > > > > | Chris Hedemark > > | Hillsborough, NC > > | http://yonderway.com/chris > > | GPG Public Key - http://yonderway.com/chris/hedemark.gpg > > > > *********************************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
