ODBC works on Mac, right?

[mikihasa]

Ok, maybe if I feign ignorance someone will have pity and answer a question for me in this forum. That was meant to be humorous sarcasm. I am actually just glad that I have somewhere to put all of my questions where there is a chance that someone will see them that might know the answer.

I am working on a (hopefully) cross platform conversion tool that transmits data between FMP 5.0 and another binary file format. If am able to use ODBC on the Mac then I feel pretty confident that it will work out.

So, ODBC works on a Mac, right?

Michael

[scratchmalogicalwax]

Erm yes. It's an application ting! and FMPro supports ODBC access.

[ebley]

Did you ever get this working? If so, can you (start) to write some steps on how you did this? I am on Mac OS 10.3

The bottom line thing I am asking - has anyone accessed Filemaker Pro V6 via ODBC on Mac OS X? If so, how the ($&(*A&%A$ do you set it up?

Here is what I did . . .

a) downloaded the FM ODBC driver for FM6 (a *.sit file)

unstuffed it

c) double clicked on driver

d) went to the Applications::Filemaker Pro 6.0::FM ODBC Drivers and clicked on FM Pro ODBC Drivers

Then I went to the ODBC setup on Mac OS X and nothing shows up.

Anyone ever get this to work?

[cjaeger]

read about which ODBC system to use on Flemaker FAQ. You will have to disable the FileMaker supplied to use the OS X native drivers. Or use the DataDirect ODBC manager to configure data sources.

Just another little FileMaker trap. Don't bother with a radio button in prefs, let users find out the hard way ....