[NTLUG:Discuss] ODBC to MySQL

[Paul Ingendorf]

You will give it an ip address or dns name and a db that you want to use like test.  Plus your username password and some other settings that are best left to default until you have a better understanding of what they do.

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From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Bobby Wrenn
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:31 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] ODBC to MySQL


On Wednesday 31 July 2002 04:54 pm, you wrote:
> You have to define the DSN.  I just do it from the control panel ODBC
> Datasources.  You can create a system dsn for use on that machine or a file
> based one that you can move along with the driver to multiple machines. 
> Basically just go in there click the add button and fill in the appropriate
> blanks and you should be able to connect to it from access just like any
> other remote db.
>
When creating a data source I have to tell the odbc driver where the data is 
located. Where is the data located on the Linux box?

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