Re: [Iodbc-list] "Error: Native ODBC Error"

[Thomas P. <tpa...@tr...>]

I ended up going with unixODBC. Thanks anyways!

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Parikka
<tpa...@tr...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am on a Fedora Core 13 x64 system trying to use iODBC 3.52.7-1.fc12
> (x86_64) with the mysql-connector-odbc-5.1.5r1144-7.fc13 (both from
> the standard Fedora repository, in Add/Remove Software) to set up an
> ODBC connection to a Windows box running MySQL 5.1.37-community. When
> I set up a new ODBC Driver in iODBC using the Driver file name:
> "/usr/lib64/libmyodbc5.so" and a Setup file name of
> "/usr/lib64/libodbcmyS.so". When I try to add a new User DSN with that
> driver the first odd thing is that the Date is ##.##. When I continue
> with that driver and enter the "server" of the IP address of my MySQL
> server, "database" of my test DB, "user" as my DB user name, and
> "password" as the password, click "Finish", then try to test the
> connection I get an error "Error: Native ODBC Error" as the title of
> an error dialog where the text is filled in with squares with lines
> crossing each character position. This error is not documented at
> http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/iodbc/wiki/iODBC/FAQ and I can't find
> anything about it via Google. I tried also using "iodbctest" with the
> ODBC connect string "Test2" (the name of my test DSN) The
> SQLDriverConnect and ODBC_Connect results were simply filled in with
> black circles with white question marks in them. How can I begin to
> figure this out?
>
> -Thomas
>