Has anyone got Open Office to access a remote mysql database?

[NoOp]

On 12/08/2009 11:01 AM, Chris G wrote:
> I am trying to set up Open Office's database access to connect to a
> remote (as in another computer on my LAN) database.  I'm failing
> pretty miserably. This is in [x]ubuntu 9.10, Open Office 3.1.1.
> 
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You might want to give this a try:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/mysql_connector
further ref/info:
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database/Drivers/MySQL_Native/1.0>

However, also note:
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database/Drivers/MySQL_Native/1.0/Known_Issues>
But if the server is on your LAN then this shouldn't be a problem.