How to connect to a Unix from Crystal Reports running on windows?

Any idea on how to connect from windows Crystal Reports X1 client to a Unix box
file directoriesu2026 
 
Any suggestions would be much appreciatedu2026 

Edited by: DarkNight on Nov 13, 2009 10:42 AM

Hi Darknight,
What is it you want to find once you are connected? Since you posted this in the Database Connectivity forum I assume you want to connect to some DB or flat file on that server? If it's a DB then use the client to connect from windows. If it's a flat file then you should be able to use whatever connection utility you use to see the file system from windows. I don't know Unix so not sure but need more details.
Thank you
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