Minimum client connectivity requirement

I have Win9x clients. For them to be able to write to a
SQL database (2000), I think I would need to install
MDAC. However, many of these clients are connected with
an extremely slow WAN connection (56K) which makes MDAC
install via login script difficult or impossible. I don't
need the connectivity to all the other DB systems that
MDAC includes. Can I break it up to only install the
necessary components for TCP/IP and Named Pipes
connectivity to SQL server? If so, how can I find out
what files I need, and what if any registry entries need
to be made?
Thanks!
Installing MDAC 2.6 would be the basic requirement.
HTH,
Vinod Kumar
MCSE, DBA, MCAD, MCSD
http://www.extremeexperts.com
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"Mark" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have Win9x clients. For them to be able to write to a
> SQL database (2000), I think I would need to install
> MDAC. However, many of these clients are connected with
> an extremely slow WAN connection (56K) which makes MDAC
> install via login script difficult or impossible. I don't
> need the connectivity to all the other DB systems that
> MDAC includes. Can I break it up to only install the
> necessary components for TCP/IP and Named Pipes
> connectivity to SQL server? If so, how can I find out
> what files I need, and what if any registry entries need
> to be made?
> Thanks!
|||This is correct. There is no piecmeal approach to installing the
connectivity components to connect to SQL Server 2000.
Rand
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