Okay,
I have been ask to work on a project at work, that entails putting data inside a
Microsoft Access database. Most of this work is being done at home, so I am
setting up my system to be able to use Access through Wine.
I have successfully installed Windows XP Office(thanks CodeWeavers, you guys are
the greatest... yes it is the LinuxDemo, saving my pennies to buy the licenses
javascript:emoticon(':)') ), but I just need to know if I am thinking
wrong.
I have unixODBC working with a Oracle XE database in Linux. I just want to make
sure that I understand that I can set a DSN in unixODBC and it will read the
Access database. Can I use the drivers in Wine(Microsoft Access (*.mdb) drivers
just like I could if I was in a "real" Windows enviroment.
I would much rather use OpenOffice to develop and test (from Linux), and just
have the Access database show up as a datasource in OpenOffice.
This can be done can't it???
The problem I am having is the Wine drivers showing up in unixODBC.... ???
I would love to get rid of Windows all together, but where I work, the
"higher-ups" in IT look down on me cause I use Linux. They have made
so many rules that make it almost impossible to do anything unless it is
Microsoft stuff. (the irony: very soon they are moving to Oracle database,,,,,
but they want this to be a Access database even though they are taking Access
away from us next year)
I am using:
openSuse 10.3
CodeWeavers Linux Standard (Demo) version 6.2.0
unixODBC 2.2.12