Can't grant permissions

Question

Hope somebody can help. I am building my first java applet which connects to a database but I can't get around the permissions problem. I have included the following policy file in the same directry as my applet but still no joy. (To be honest I am guessing a bit as tutorials tend to give you the policy file instead of explaining it.)
Can anyone suggest a good tutorial online or spot any obvious problems below??
900-0772 is my machine name - I'm running win 2k with IIS and trying to connect to MySQL (on same machine).
Thanks
Andy
/* AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED ON Thu Nov 01 15:09:44 GMT+00:00 2001*/
/* DO NOT EDIT */
grant codeBase "http://900-0772/" {
permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessClassInPackage.sun.jdbc.odbc";
permission java.net.SocketPermission "900-0772", "resolve";
permission java.net.SocketPermission "10.64.1.44:3306", "connect,resolve";
};

Answer 1

Are you planning for this to be available over the Internet? If it's just for your personal use, I would recommend writing an application instead of an applet. No security hassles to deal with.
Also, I notice from your error messages that you are trying to use the sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver class. You can't use that from an applet, because it requires installing a DLL on the applet's local machine. But you did say you were using MySQL, so you should probably get a JDBC driver that can access it (I'm not even sure if there's an ODBC driver form MySQL).