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How can I use MiniVend with Microsoft Access?

Though MiniVend has ODBC capability, the Microsoft Access ODBC driver is not a network driver. You cannot access it on a PC from your ISP or UNIX system.

However, you can turn it around. Once you have created a MySQL or other SQL database on the UNIX machine, you may then obtain the Windows ODBC driver for the database (mySQL has a package called myODBC) and use the UNIX database as a data source for your PC-based database program.

Here is a quick procedure that might get you started:

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