How can I connect/access an MS access database from solaris?

Access isn't a database server in the same way that Oracle, MySQL, et al. are. There are no client libraries that connect via socket to an Access server. Access to Access is typically via ODBC or OLE to the JET engine, which is packaged as a set of DLLs. JET manipulates the disk directly.

If you want to get at Access from Solaris, you'll need to set up some sort of proxy server on Win32, and connect to the proxy server from Solaris. Look into DBI's proxy mechanism, DBD::Proxy and DBI::ProxyServer. Using these, you would set up a proxy server on Win32 that would talk to Access via DBD::ODBC, and access that proxy server from Solaris via DBD::Proxy. I've seen such a setup work for access other databases.

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