[Glastonbury] OOo and MySQL

[Rob Cornelius]

Hi everyone,

I have spent a very frustrating afternoon trying to get OOo to connect 
to a MySQL server on another machine.

I need something that "Just like Access" to keep my boss happy (and more 
important the person working on the database who last learned a new 
skill in 1995! OOo seems ideal and the screenshots of the database 
component in action look great.

I have tried everything I can think of in the "add datasource" dialog. 
Either I get a message to say I typed in my username and password wrong 
or occasionally I get a message to say a so file is corrupt! The help 
basically says "fill out the fields in the dialog" and I have been all 
over Google.

I tried both the MySQL direct method and ODBC but both with the same 
results.

Any help is appreciated

Rob