title: Connect to MS Access remote .mdb file from php on linux
body: <p>I have been digging internet for couple days, reading very old information, that leads to very old and nonexisting sites, still, I understood, what is needed to achieve my goal.</p>
  
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  <li>We have a file.mdb on server running WindowsXP, so I need to add it to ODBC data sources. I do that with simple steps, ending up with "System DSN", that allows access to that .mdb file</li>
  <li>I need to install on this same server some sort of ODBC bridge, that would allow me to create remote connection to this server, making that bridge connect to servers ODBC DSN, and query out my stuff (could not find any free ODBC bridge)</li>
  <li>On UNIX (FreeBSD) machine, I need to install unixODBC and php5-odbc packages, enabling connections to ODBC (already installed)</li>
  <li>To connect to remote ODBC and use MS Access db driver, I need to have such a driver for unixODBC, in .so file, that is sitting inside UNIX machine (could not find any free MS Access drivers)</li>
  <li>Connect to that server using PHP odbc_connect(DSN,user,password), and in DSN I need to give some connection information and driver, which I need to use (MS Access driver).</li>
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  <p>Correct me, if I'm mistaken and please give me more advice, how to achieve such a connection.</p>