At last, it is working. I reinstalled OOo even though java was enabled
before, but I did highlight the jre 1.4 this time. I also added the \\
in the path statement. Don't understand why you have to use double \\
though.

Now if I can get it working in Linux.

Art



William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

> Art,
> Welcome to the Java list, thanks for moving over to this list. This way
> we won't upset the others and of course our gracious moderator.
>
> Just for fun, I starting from scratch installed JayBird, then Java,
> then OpenOffice. While installing OpenOffice enabled Java support using
> my recently installed JRE. All on a Win2k workstation.
>
> I then started OO, added all the JayBird jar files to it's classpath.
> Then I configured my datasource, and vola access to my db via OO. No
> problems.
>
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:29, Art Fore wrote:
>
>>I have followed the procedure in a howto about connection OOo to
>>interbase, but it did not work. Found an email from someone in Spain who
>>connect as follows:
>>
>>JDBC Driver class: org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver
>>URL jdbc:firebirdsql:192.168.1.200:/(pathtodb)/(dbfile).gdb
>
>
> That's one way, I think the preferred is still
>
> Windows server
> jdbc:firebirdsql:192.168.1.200/3050:C:\\(pathtodb)\\(dbfile).gdb
>
> Linux or Unix server
> jdbc:firebirdsql:192.168.1.200/3050:/(pathtodb)/(dbfile).gdb
>
>
>>and make sure yours driver class
>>
>>firebirdsql.jar
>>firebirdjmx.jar
>>mini-concurrent.jar
>>jaas.jar
>>mini-j2ee.jar
>>log4j-core.jar
>
>
> Looks good, those are all the ones you need.
>
>
>>is in the classpath under openoffice in options->openoffice.org-
>> >security
>
>
> The right place to add them.
>
>
>>I have tried using my ip address, localhost, using forward slashes and
>>back slashes, and several other variations. Still get no connect.
>
>
> Strange
>
>
>>Java is installed and I can connect to the database using isql.
>
>
> Under the same security tab is the Java check box checked? You did not
> adjust the other security settings did you?
>
> You may want to reinstall OO and make sure it's configured to work with
> your JRE.
>
>
>>Any Ideas or a detailed howto that works for this?
>>
>
>
> There really is not details as to how to do this. Especially in windows
> it's all pretty much straight forward.
>
> How are you setting up your data source. Are you using the correct class
> org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver?
>
> Let me know. Also if you get any errors please press the more button and
> get some specifics as to the error you are running into.
>