Dan Kegel [mailto:dank@kegel.com] wrote:
Can somebody help this (german-speaking) fellow: http://www.unixboard.de/vb3/showthread.php?t=26943
He says his company's internal application requires you to input a DSN when installing it, and he doesn't know how to come up with a DSN under Wine.
Hmm, the DSN is just a name. You first would have to configure it and yes that means under Wine to deal with unixODBC.
Alternatively you could change the connection string to pass all relevant information to the driver directly and have the configuration of those parameters in the application itself.
Presumably he doesn't want to mess with Unixodbc, he just wants to keep using the Microsoft drivers...?
Ouch, I wouldn't see how this could work. Running the Microsoft drivers together with the whole Microsoft ODBC manager under Wine too would probably be the only way to get that working. But I think it is safe to assume that that would require quite some work in Wine before this could possibly work, not to talk about license issues.
Rolf Kalbermatter