What I really need to do is be able to write and read ms access databases on the UNIX box not from a WIN 32 box elsewhere. I read like eight million pages on how to do that but not access the database locally.
If anyone has a module and a tutorial on this I would be deeply greatful.
Run Access on a Unix box? Now that's something I'd like to see :) Have you tried WINE? I haven't heard of anything that can access Access files except Access - specifically msjet*.dll.