respected sir/madam My name is padmini and i am trying to read or access the mdb files from linux. This, am trying with the linux odbc driver I wanted to kno if the odbc manager is required for this purpose or is there a better way to do this please reply thanking you in advance padmini ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com