FreeTDS Development Group

[Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Joe Stump wrote:

> > Access is not a client-server database.  If you have Samba running,
> > you can just drop the MDB into one of its shares, and point your clients
> > at it.
> 
> But PHP couldn't access it I suppose.

Sure, if you're running PHP on Windows.  No, if you're not.  In that
case, why not just use a real DBMS that runs on your non-Windows server.
You can still let your users use Access as a client front end to view or
maintain the data, as long as there's an ODBC driver for your DBMS.
Look at MySQL or PostgreSQL or Oracle or Sybase or DB2 or ....

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Bob Kline
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