Hello Alex,

What kind of program are you going to be using to connect through ODBC to Sesame? If it is a 32 bit program than what you are after is possible, but since the ODBC installer is 32 bit it won't run on your system. This means you have to do the install of the ODBC driver by hand. This requires modifying the windows registry as well as registering a few dlls.

If the program you wish to connect to Sesame is a 64 bit program, There is a very high chance it can not read our 32 bit ODBC driver. I know that the 64 bit version of Microsoft Office will not connect to our ODBC driver.

You may be better off looking into using the Sesame API which can be found at http://www.lantica.com/Products/sesame_api.html

-Ray

Hello Alex,

Below are steps that I have gotten to work. Be very careful in following these steps.

1.  Copy sesodbc.dll from the Setup32 directory to C:\Windows\SysWOW64
2.  Open the windows Registry Editor.
3.  Make a backup of every key before you change it just in case.
4.  Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC Drivers
5.  Right click on ODBC Drivers and choose New->String Value
6.  Name the new string value "Sesame ODBC Driver", without the quotes.
7.  Set the value data of that new string value to "Installed", without the quotes.
8.  Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI
9.  Right click on ODBCINST.INI and choose New->Key
10. Name the new key "Sesame ODBC Driver", without the quotes.
11. Right Click on Sesame ODBC Driver and choose New->String Value
12. Name the new string value "Driver", without the quotes.
13. Set the value data of Driver to "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sesodbc.dll", without the quotes.
16. Right Click on Sesame ODBC Driver and choose New->String Value
17. Name the new string value "Setup", without the quotes.
18. Set the value data of Driver to "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sesodbc.dll", without the quotes.
19. Right Click on Sesame ODBC Driver and choose New->String Value
20. Name the new string value "CPTimeout", without the quotes.
21. Set the value data of Driver to "<not pooled>", without the quotes.
22. Close the windows Registry Editor
23.  Open a command line and browse to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
24.  Type "odbcconf REGSVR C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sesodbc.dll"

At this point you should see the Sesame under the Drivers tab when you execute C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe

-Ray