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Peter,
You may want to post this to comp.databases.rdb (actually, I've cross-posted this answer there; however, you may want to monitor that newsgroup for your answer).
-- Barry L. Wallis, Senior Systems Engineer Science Applications International Corporation 4161 Campus Point Court San Diego, CA 92121 voice: (619) 646-9891, fax: (619) 646-9327 mailto: Barry.L.Wallis_at_cpmx.saic.com Peter Tarbaj wrote in message ...Received on Thu Sep 03 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT
>Hi Folks,
>
>I need some help setting up an oracle odbc driver for rdb. The
situation
>is as follows:
>
>We have a VAX system with OpenVMS 6.2 installed. There are Rdb
databases
>which we would like to access from PCs running MS Windows NT from
Excel.
>SQLSRV$SRV is running on our VAX/VMS system. The network is based on
>Digital Pathworks (DECNet). There is no TCP/IP installed. So I
installed
>the ODBC driver from Oracle on my NT box. (BTW Pathworks32 V7.0A is
>installed on the NT system.) I can access the SQL server and the rdb
>database on the VMS system from Oracle's test query (which came with
the
>ODBC driver package) via DECNet, but when I try it from MS Query (part
>of MS Office97) it wont work for me. The ODBC driver for Rdb wants to
>use TCP/IP, and of course cannot find the VMS system which is only
>accessible via DECNet.
>So I need help from someone who experienced such problems before how to
>set up the driver to use DECNet and not TCP/IP. It is annoying that
when
>I use the Oracle test query it asks about the transport protocol, and
>when I use this MS thingy it only asks the server name and stuff like
>that and I cannot set the transport protocol to DECNet.
>Please answer in private email to one of the following addresses:
>
>tarby_at_freeside.elte.hu
>tarby_at_lord.banki.hu
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Bye!
>
>Peter Tarbaj
>
>
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