idiot database flamewars

[Wade Chandler]

Chadley Wilson wrote:
> Yes but there are no answers, forcing me to search other places,
> I have manged to get connectivity at leased I think I do.
> 
> Let me explain, when the app gui based comes up you can see that it has
> found connection because it list it in the title bar. next section lists
> active databases of which none are listed.
> So I think its because there is a domain and I am not logged in to gain
> access to the shares. The database will ask for a password but so will
> the network. The Question is how do you log into a domain with fc1?
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 17:47, William Hooper wrote:
> 
>>Chadley Wilson said:
>>
>>>Just to clarify how the system works,
>>>The app is called Xalt you wont know of it because it is written for our
>>>company.
>>>It is installed simply by copying files from the mapped U drive to
>>>c:\swacc . straight forward with wine and it works.
>>>Now for database connectivity you have to install client connectivity
>>>for windows (I have tried installing it in wine, but it doesn't work. I
>>>just don´t know what to do in this instance. If it will just connect to
>>>the database server the rest will be done by Xalt. Xalt is also 95%
>>>server based so the only thing the client PC handles is the running of
>>>the front end.
>>
>>So, if I understand your question correctly it has nothing to do with
>>database connectivity for Linux.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't
>>your question be better asked:
>>
>>How do I get a custom Windows app (Xalt) _via Wine_ to talk to the DB?
>>
>>It's more of a Wine question than anything else, because you need the Wine
>>bits to let Xalt talk to the database, not get Fedora to talk to the
>>database.  Have you tried a Wine list with the question of installing the
>>"client connectivity for windows"?
>>
>>-- 
>>William Hooper
>>
> 
> 
> 
If  you are getting the network login prompt in WINE enter 
domainName\userName as the full user name (as I assume you are using 
Win9x WINE).  password as usual.  that should probably do it for domain 
login.

Wade