Re: Using Access as a client

"Joseph Ranseth" <jransethNO_SPAM_at_hotmail.com> allegedly wrote:

> I have a development server setup in our office, and have a few develpoment
> clients accessing it already.
>
> What I need now is to setup one of our end users to the developement DB in
> order to run an insert query from an access interface. This isn't a problem
> on the development boxes, b/c they have the oracle odbc drivers installed
> already - the end-user with only access does not.
> Windows(or access) comes with an oracle driver, but for some reason it
> doesn't want to find the service when I try to create the DSN.
> I tried downloading drivers from oracle.com, but they assume that client
> tools are already installed.
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong, or what I need to do/create in order to make
> everything run smoothly?

*Any* Oracle ODBC driver you find is going to want the Oracle Client software installed.

So, pop in your Oracle CD on that Access machine and install just the Oracle Client.

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