Can Windows and Linux co-exist?
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Mon May 17 10:27:04 UTC 2010
Sam Sharpe wrote:
>> I'm thinking specifically (at the moment)
>> of MySQL, openVPN and openLDAP.
>> Is there anywhere an account of how to set up
>> a Windows client with a Linux server
>> for these applications?
>>
>> For example, I access MySQL on my server
>> through http://<myserver>/phpMyAdmin
>> and LDAP through http://<myserver>/phpLDAPadmin .
>>
>> But I haven't found a clear account
>> of how to access these applications from a Windows client.
>
> Do those web addresses not work from a Windows client?
>
> Try these links:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/windows-installation.html <-
> MySQL is fully Supported on Windows
Thanks very much, I followed the advice there and now I can indeed
access my MySQL data from my Windows XP machine.
I'm not sure why my previous attempt
(using a different installer) failed.
I was slightly put off by the fact that MySQL
seemed to be trying to persuade me to choose a paid option.
Also all the documentation refers to setting up a MySQL _server_,
while I just want a MySQL client (under Windows).
But maybe this is just a matter of the language used by MySQL.
While following this document worked, as I said,
I don't think it is very good, at least for someone like me
who just wants to install a Windows client
to access a MySQL database on a Linux server.
It seems to be aimed at a completely different audience.
Now I'll move on to LDAP ...
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Timothy Murphy
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