This dialogue allows you to define a local OOB DSN which connects to a remote ODBC driver. It is a tab dialogue with the following tabs:
On this tab you define the local DSN name and a description for this DSN. The name you use here is what your local application needs to use.
On this tab you define the server where the OOB Server is installed and the port the OOB Server is listening on. You also specify an operating system username and password for a user who can logon to the server machine.
If you want to use OOB fallover capability you can specify multiple OOB Servers by clicking on the ... button. This form also allows you to check the connection to the OOB Server and operating system authentication.
On this tab you define the name of the remote SYSTEM ODBC data source and a username and password to logon to the database (if required). This data source should already have been created on the Server machine and ideally you should have already verified it works.
If you have installed an OOB Server on the server machine which is later than version 1.5 and you already have SYSTEM DSNs created on the server machine you can click on the ... button to get a list of available data sources on the remote server machine.
This tab allows you to modify some OOB optimisations.
This tab allows you to alter the default OOB-specific settings.
Each tab and additional dialogues support tooltips on the controls (just leave the mouse pointer over a control to get the tooltip) and if you see a "?" in the top right of the window you can click on this then click on a control to get more detailed help.
Additional dialogues like the Server Test dialogue and the main Test dialogue have help buttons you can use to get further help.
Note: The Test button is disabled until you have filled in the minimum necessary fields which are Server/Port, TargetDSN and LogonUser.