>It *is* possible to do this with the OOo Calc in centos, but it takes a bit of muscle to get working... >You'll also need jta, which unfortunately is non-free, and only available as an srpm from jpackage >( in the 1.6 non-free tree. I haven't seen it appear yet in 1.7). You talking about two pieces of the Java Transaction API (JTA) at: http://java.sun.com/products/jta/index.html and http://jpackage.org/ Where is the 1.6 non free tree @ jpackage? I Could not find it. Is there any documentation for JTA install on jpackage.org site? >...then installing the sun-compat-java package from jpackage.org) Where on http://jpackage.org/ is info/download for sun-compat-java? Could not find it on either the 1.6 or 1.7 tree. >This next bit assumes some minimal familiarity with building rpms. >You'll have to change the cvs_version string from 1_0_1_B to 1_1 >in the jta spec file, and download the jta class package from >http://java.sun.com/products/jta/ I didn't bother to fix the documentation >related portion of the spec, but rather cheated and built the rpm with '--without javadoc' If you or someone could expand on this a bit, maybe procedural cli steps then I think I could take it from there. I started this same thread over on a major OpenOffice Mail list & did not get any new info on this SSH database connect issue. Guess I'm pretty much out of luck unless I can solve this via info from this forum. _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008