connecting to sql server (within windows domain) through linux?

Hi,

I'm planning to develop a small intranet to provide our organization
with documents online. I've decided to do this using jsp/servlets
using a tomcat server. For an operating system, I have chosen red hat
linux. However, I'd like to keep a small database on a sql server as
a datasource. However, this sql server is already part of our
organization's windows domain. I suspect I'll need to configure samba
so that other terminals on the windows domain will be able to reach
the intranet. What's the best manner in which to connect my linux
servlets to this sql server database? I suspect this may be
difficult, considering the sql server exists within a windows domain,
but as a beginner, what do I know. Perhaps someone could point me in
the right direction.Hi

You can use the JDBC driver to communicate with your SQL Server and use SQL
Server authentication to access the server. Samba is not needed at all this
may be a way to connect to an access database but SQL Server is a completely
different product.

John
"Dan" <danhicks333@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b03c5d2b.0409111105.18d75023@.posting.google.c om...
> Hi,
> I'm planning to develop a small intranet to provide our organization
> with documents online. I've decided to do this using jsp/servlets
> using a tomcat server. For an operating system, I have chosen red hat
> linux. However, I'd like to keep a small database on a sql server as
> a datasource. However, this sql server is already part of our
> organization's windows domain. I suspect I'll need to configure samba
> so that other terminals on the windows domain will be able to reach
> the intranet. What's the best manner in which to connect my linux
> servlets to this sql server database? I suspect this may be
> difficult, considering the sql server exists within a windows domain,
> but as a beginner, what do I know.Perhapssomeonecouldpointmein
> the right direction.|||Dan (danhicks333@.gmail.com) writes:
> I'm planning to develop a small intranet to provide our organization
> with documents online. I've decided to do this using jsp/servlets
> using a tomcat server. For an operating system, I have chosen red hat
> linux. However, I'd like to keep a small database on a sql server as
> a datasource. However, this sql server is already part of our
> organization's windows domain. I suspect I'll need to configure samba
> so that other terminals on the windows domain will be able to reach
> the intranet. What's the best manner in which to connect my linux
> servlets to this sql server database? I suspect this may be
> difficult, considering the sql server exists within a windows domain,
> but as a beginner, what do I know. Perhaps someone could point me in
> the right direction.

I have never connected to SQL Server from Unix myself, but I happen to
maintain a page which summarizes the various options. Look at:
http://www.sommarskog.se/mssqlperl/unix.html

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp|||The SQL server I want to connect to does not have a public IP address.
I connect to this server from my other web server (part of the
windows domain)using the server name (treadstonesql). My thinking was
that if samba is configured correctly, I could connect to it the same
way my web server does. Does this help?

"John Bell" <jbellnewsposts@.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<414352bf$0$4664$afc38c87@.news.easynet.co.uk>...
> Hi
> You can use the JDBC driver to communicate with your SQL Server and use SQL
> Server authentication to access the server. Samba is not needed at all this
> may be a way to connect to an access database but SQL Server is a completely
> different product.
> John
> "Dan" <danhicks333@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:b03c5d2b.0409111105.18d75023@.posting.google.c om...
> > Hi,
> > I'm planning to develop a small intranet to provide our organization
> > with documents online. I've decided to do this using jsp/servlets
> > using a tomcat server. For an operating system, I have chosen red hat
> > linux. However, I'd like to keep a small database on a sql server as
> > a datasource. However, this sql server is already part of our
> > organization's windows domain. I suspect I'll need to configure samba
> > so that other terminals on the windows domain will be able to reach
> > the intranet. What's the best manner in which to connect my linux
> > servlets to this sql server database? I suspect this may be
> > difficult, considering the sql server exists within a windows domain,
> > but as a beginner, what do I know.Perhapssomeonecouldpointmein
> > the right direction.|||Hi

The IPaddress does not have to be a public one (in fact it would be better
if it wasn't) The IP Address can be used when connecting instead of using a
lookup, you will need to set up the firewall rules so that you can talk on
the right ports (not necessarily the default ones!) between the two
machines.

I would not expect your second web server to be part of the internal domain,
this may mean that your whole domain is compromised if the web server is
compromised.

John

"Dan" <danhicks333@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b03c5d2b.0409120659.618cc1ae@.posting.google.c om...
> The SQL server I want to connect to does not have a public IP address.
> I connect to this server from my other web server (part of the
> windows domain)using the server name (treadstonesql). My thinking was
> that if samba is configured correctly, I could connect to it the same
> way my web server does. Does this help?
> "John Bell" <jbellnewsposts@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<414352bf$0$4664$afc38c87@.news.easynet.co.uk>...
> > Hi
> > You can use the JDBC driver to communicate with your SQL Server and use
SQL
> > Server authentication to access the server. Samba is not needed at all
this
> > may be a way to connect to an access database but SQL Server is a
completely
> > different product.
> > John
> > "Dan" <danhicks333@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:b03c5d2b.0409111105.18d75023@.posting.google.c om...
> > > Hi,
> > > > I'm planning to develop a small intranet to provide our organization
> > > with documents online. I've decided to do this using jsp/servlets
> > > using a tomcat server. For an operating system, I have chosen red hat
> > > linux. However, I'd like to keep a small database on a sql server as
> > > a datasource. However, this sql server is already part of our
> > > organization's windows domain. I suspect I'll need to configure samba
> > > so that other terminals on the windows domain will be able to reach
> > > the intranet. What's the best manner in which to connect my linux
> > > servlets to this sql server database? I suspect this may be
> > > difficult, considering the sql server exists within a windows domain,
> > > but as a beginner, what do I know.Perhapssomeonecouldpointmein
> > > the right direction.