[Zope] ZODBCDA and W2k

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:51:10 -0700


> I have seen the Zope adapter require a different form of connection string

Its: DSN/user/pwd

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@mitretek.org>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] ZODBCDA and W2k


> I have seen the Zope adapter require a different form of connection string
> from the ODBC driver.  It was for either Interbase or mySQL, I forget
which.
> Read the docs for the adapter very carefully and hope someone else has the
> answer, because I don't remember anymore what worked in my case,and that
may
> be different from yours.  For example, you might have to specify a host
for
> the database server.
>
> [florian reiser]
>
> I have a computer running W2k and Zope 2.4.1. However when I try to access
a
> VFP7 database through ZODBCDA, I get the error message: Invalid connection
> string.
>
> But the System DSN works!! I've tested it with Excel.
> With zope I can connect to an Excel sheet through an appropriate DSN, too.
> The id of the DSN and the DSN in zope is the same.
> The connection does not work, even when I try to create a new ODBC
> connection
> object.
>
> So what's wrong?
>
>
>
>
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