Re: ODBC DSN Connections

In Ms-Access, DSN-less connections for pass-through queries, or linked tables work, but I noticed strange problems regarding permissions. The only way to make them work - perfectly! - was to use a DSN. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jeff Eckermann [mailto:jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com]
Envoyé : lundi, 3. novembre 2003 20:57
À : Philippe Lang
Cc : pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Objet : Re: [ODBC] ODBC DSN Connections

--- Philippe Lang <philippe(dot)lang(at)attiksystem(dot)ch>
wrote:

> Just one quick note, though: My client will be
> implemented with MS Access 2000, and I had a lot of
> problems with permissions and DSN-less connection.
> Permissions simply do not work, at least for me,
> unless I use a good old DSN, with a username and a
> password inside. I use a lot of "Pass-through
> queries" in Access, which are generated dynamically,
> in order to pass parameters to Postgresql, and
> process the results inside a report.

There's nothing to stop you from making a connection
at the time you do your pass-through query, in the
same code. But you would need to hard-code your
connection parameters, or prompt the user for them;
either approach has its drawbacks. Or you could read
the parameters from another location, but that brings
you right back to your DSN idea...

But I agree with you in general, I like the
simplification that DSNs allow. Although I am not
supporting any large number of client installations.

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