Alot of people share the same kind of problems getting this setup on linux. I was assigned this problem 2 days ago and I was successful. My combination was PHP4 RC2, Easysoft OOB, and unixODBC. These three products work very well together and are real easy to install. More info http://www.easysoft.com/products/oob/main.phtml. ps also works good with Perl's DBI.