Medisoft and creating a remote DSN

If your Medisoft server is on one PC, and Synapse is on another, then you need to create a System DSN on the Medisoft server to connect to the Synapse Server.

This assumes the following

• The Synapse server is at 192.168.1.200
• The Synapse database is at c:\emr\server\remr.fdb
  
• Your Medisoft data is at c:\MediData\PRACTICENAME\

You need to install the Firebird ODBC driver on the Medisoft server.  You can download the installer from here.

You also need the fbclient.dll which is the Firebird software used by the ODBC Firebird driver.  Save this file into your Medisoft directory .... like c:\MediData\PRACTICENAME\fbclient.dll and you can either copy the fbclient.dll from the binary folder of your Firebird installation on your Synapse server, or grab this version.

Now create the System DSN on your Medisoft server like this, making the appropriate substitutions.  Use the [test connection] button to make sure it works okay.

Unless you have changed it, the password is "masterkey".

if it doesn't work, make sure that you can ping the Synapse server from the Medisoft one, and make sure no firewalls are blocking traffic.