Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] MS Office compatability

[Dave A. <da...@ca...>]

Hi Olaf

My client is using 32 bit XP with Office 2003 and Office 2007. At the 
moment we are just trying to set up the ODBC connection but the Test 
Connection button always fails.

A delphi application (using IBX components) is working so we know the 
connection string and login credentials are correct and that the link 
from the Firebird client to the server is OK.

Is there some way to trace the cause of the failure with ODBC?

On 22/03/11 14:43, Olaf Kluge wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> yes, I have testet it with firebird odbc 2.0.0.150. I use two connections to
> firebird. All tables are connected to a system.dsn, stored procedures with
> an ADO-connection.
>
> What operating sytem you are using on your clients? 32 or 64bit? Can you
> connect with the ODBC-DSN (Test-Button).
>
> Olaf
>
> Thanks Olaf
>
> Can you confirm that you are using MS Office with the latest version
> (RC2) of the Firebird driver.
>
> I am looking for an explanation why the driver works perfectly on my machine
> but fails to connect on the client's desktop machines which have MS Office
> installed. It works on their server which does not have MS Office. The
> connection string and user details are all correct.
>
> On 22/03/11 11:43, Olaf Kluge wrote:
>>
>> Hello Dave,
>>
>> since Microsoft Windows XP, MDAC 2.8 is integrated. In Windows 2000
>> you need to install the MDAC manually.
>>
>> We use Microsoft Office, especially Access to connect to firebird. I
>> have tested the gemini-odbc-driver, also the firebird-odbc-driver and
>> both works very well within all me known firebird-versions.
>>
>> You can use ODBC with all Applications using ODBC. With the
>> odbc-driver-manager you can test the connection to firebird.
>>
>> Best regards, Olaf
>> _____________________
>>
>>
>>
>> My client is unsuccessful in connecting to the database using the ODBC
>> driver. I have tested the driver on all my machines and it works.
>>
>> Reading up on this, I discovered that MS Office (and other MS
>> products) install a different set of MDAC components. On the MS
>> knowledgebase, I discovered this:
>>
>> "With so many recent MDAC releases, applications have experienced
>> version incompatibility issues under certain circumstances."
>>
>> All my client's machines have MS Office installed, but I don't use it.
>> Is the Firebird driver compatable with MS Office?
>

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