I've heard of people doing it. You'll need a second machine for Access to run on (it's not going to open directly on anything under linux), a network connection to that machine, iODBC set up and running and a ODBC driver like one from www.openlinksw.com. If you don't have a second PC or the desire to run Winders or the time to set all of that up (it's rather a beitsch), you're better off converting your database to something worthwhile. Microsoft does not allow its databases to be shared crossplatform. This was a feature of Sybase before they stole it and turned it into SQL Server, but they disabled the feature. Dave On Wednesday 19 September 2001 05:10 pm, dog@intop.net wrote:
you cant open access databases with staroffice. staroffice can be installed with adabas support and possibly some other type of database support. dont think of an access database like you think of a word or excel document, they just arent the same. you could possibly export the access database to some other type of database or a flat text file and then open it in linux, but staroffice just isnt going to do the trick.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Linux - User wrote:
Does someone has oppened an Access 2000 database under Staroffice or any other Linux Database.
Does that database still works?
Thanks