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How can I access a flat file that resides on a UNIX file system?

My DS is on a Windows 2000 server.


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Don't know the how to do, but you would need to have the UNIX file area defined to 'a drive' accessable to the windows server would be my thought.


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Hi,

I think that unless you can make it look like a regular DOS file to Windows, you will need to have a sub server on UNIX to access it. The only other thing I could see would be to FTP it but you probably don't want to do that.


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You need a data adapter. If you have that it will be configured on the admin console.


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The ftp listener is probably the easiest way to do this. We have another option called managed file transfer, that can be used to extract files over ssh or sftp


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Thanks for the Inputs.

The UNIX team is setting up SAMBA and creating a share that maps to the folder on the UNIX file system. This will let me to create a map on the reporting server to the folder on the UNIX file system.

I will then create an ODBC DSN and an ODBC adapter in the reporting server to access the file.

Keeping my fingers crossed.... I'll post an update later with the results.


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