I've got a desktop with WinXP and my laptop with dual OS', Red Hat9 and XP. For a university project I've created a Visual Basic application which reads the data from a DB created in Access XP. There is an important lack of teaching in the UK universities regarding to non-microsoft OS enviroments so that's why I want to start showing to my tutors that linux can do much better than windows using it for my practical assignments, and that it is not just an alternative Os. My question is, is there any way to install the database in linux as file server and read the data from the application installed in my desktop(XP)?. I've tried with samba but id doesn't seems to work.
Can anybody give a hand?, I'm a newbie so I know the basic but please I appreciate a nice explanation...cheers!!!


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You should be able to use samba as a fiel server.

I also think you can use mysql as a database backend and Access as the frontend.

Same as above, but juicier

I would check out MySQL. MySQL comes in rpms with redhat, make sure its installed. Basically, your linux box would be the SQL server. Any computer can connect to it from the network, providing you give the user the right privileges and the box's firewall lets those requests pass through.

If you are talking file-serving, i would install the samba-swat rpm that came with RedHat... the Webpage administration makes everything easier.