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Right now my company does a lot of reporting using excel which connects to an OLAP source. I am on a mac which means I am forced to run a VM. I bought crossover to try and run excel 2010 natively on my mac (since excel for mac does not support OLAP). I have been able to install excel without issue I have also gone into wine and made sure that oledb32 was native and built in.

Unfortunately whenever I try connecting to the server for analysis services it can't see the server. Am I running into an OLEDB issue or is this a possible issue with my mac and windows authentication? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Well, if you can't see the server and given this is mostly MS stuff, maybe it is dependant on IE, in which case installing the lastest version of IE might be a thing to try. It might add some network function not present otherwise.

I also checked Wine wiki, but the entry is rather old. From my understanding (I have never used OLAP or OLEDB), you probably need MS jet, and MDAC 2.8 in that bottle too. You can see the entry here. Visual Basic seems to contain some stuff for db access too, but installing that might be a last ditch effort.

If you're still not getting anywhere, some system specs might help others. As for me, I'm a Linux geek and don't know much about Macs. Lastly, you could also generate a debug log, as explained in this wiki entry. If you post the log, please put it between [ code ] [ /code ] brackets, to prevent the post from getting out of hand. The brackets are automatically generated by the code button. If you can, try to trim what appears insignificant.

Hello, is there any known way to make this work? My company is interested on running Excel on Linux, for the only purpose of connecting to olap. It would be great for us to move to Linux using crossover.

Since the original poste hasn't written back, it is difficult to say as I don't use the stuff.

You should write to info@codeweavers.com to ask the question directly to the staff.

Hello,

I wrote to codeweavers, and it seems this is something that is not supported right now.

I hope someday it may work.