On 10/31/2012 07:28 PM, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:
Hi Ian,
To be honest - I am somewhat confused regarding the issue of "where is
the
native connector"! It might be that going to extensions and then
download/installing
the native connector (for OpenOffice) does the trick. On the other
hand, I think
that it should come automatically with the newest versions of LO. The
definition
of a natively connected MySQL database goes as follows:
- (1) connect to an existing database, then select "MySQL" from the
drop-down
list (JDBC is shown as the first item in that list! MySQL is
third from
bottom in my case)
- (2) on the next dialog box select "direct connection" (direkte
Verbindung in
German)
- (3) on the next dialog box specify the database name, server name,
IP-address
or localhost (127.0.0.1) and port (usually 3306) or else the
socket file
(possible in case of a local server)
- (4) then specify the username and whether a password has to be given on
connection
- (5) then store the odb-file.
Hope this is of use to you...
Regards
Thanks again Heinz
But I think we must have different versions of LO. Your 'Step 1' is OK
for the first part, (and it's what I did before), but the second part
here only gives me the options...
o Connect using ODBC
o Connect using JDBC
So knowing the JDBC does not work I tried ODBC but that gives me....
/Could not load the program library libodoc.so.1 or it is corrupted.
The ODBC data source selection is not available./
A search on my Hard Drive for 'libodoc' finds nothing and also
Synaptic does not find it. I than looked under the Extension
Manager in LO and found the 'Native Connector' written by my
friend Alex Thurgood, (who seems to have vanished off eMail at
the moment!!). But I see it is only a Pre-release for Ubuntu and
I'm running PCLinuxOs - so will it work on my machine and if so
do I just download it or what?
IanW
Pretoria SA.
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