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This is probably a crazy question, but will ask it anyway.
Is there a way to share an Access database via the web? Off the top of my head I am thinking of a situation where there might be a split database with the back-end stored in a Windows live skydrive folder restricted to certain users with the users having their own front-ends. Not sure exactly how I would make the Target. Maybe one would go about such a task in a completely different way. Anyway, all ideas welcome. Please enlighten me. Thanks so much. By the way, each time I post a question I check the "Notify me of replies" box but I never get notified. It used to work properly, but it doesn't anymore. If anyone powerful is listening, that could use a fix. Mary |
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You can do that with Sharepoint and Access 2007 or 2010 but having an access
to Sharepoint is not free. -- Sylvain Lafontaine, ing. MVP - Windows Live Platform Blog/web site: http://coding-paparazzi.sylvainlafontaine.com Independent consultant and remote programming for Access and SQL-Server (French) "sweeneysmsm" wrote in message news This is probably a crazy question, but will ask it anyway. Is there a way to share an Access database via the web? Off the top of my head I am thinking of a situation where there might be a split database with the back-end stored in a Windows live skydrive folder restricted to certain users with the users having their own front-ends. Not sure exactly how I would make the Target. Maybe one would go about such a task in a completely different way. Anyway, all ideas welcome. Please enlighten me. Thanks so much. By the way, each time I post a question I check the "Notify me of replies" box but I never get notified. It used to work properly, but it doesn't anymore. If anyone powerful is listening, that could use a fix. Mary |
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Absolutely, but it's not straight forward.
You could use a website (preferably, at least for me, in ASP.net) and use Access as your back end. This would require knowing web development, database development, having a web server or hosted space (the big name web hosting company I use allows Access databases) and on and on. but it could be done. -- ~Your Friend Chris "sweeneysmsm" wrote: This is probably a crazy question, but will ask it anyway. Is there a way to share an Access database via the web? Off the top of my head I am thinking of a situation where there might be a split database with the back-end stored in a Windows live skydrive folder restricted to certain users with the users having their own front-ends. Not sure exactly how I would make the Target. Maybe one would go about such a task in a completely different way. Anyway, all ideas welcome. Please enlighten me. Thanks so much. By the way, each time I post a question I check the "Notify me of replies" box but I never get notified. It used to work properly, but it doesn't anymore. If anyone powerful is listening, that could use a fix. Mary |
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The responses above have been helpful, but I am still interested in focusing
on the skydrive. Windows live has a skydrive. Is it possible to connect to a backend in skydrive from a desktop target - recognizing of course that one has to sign in and be authorized? Mary |
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On Tue, 4 May 2010 13:40:05 -0700, sweeneysmsm
wrote: Is it possible to connect to a backend in skydrive from a desktop target - recognizing of course that one has to sign in and be authorized? No. Access does not "play nice" over such a connection. It needs a fast, stable Local Area Network. What's worse, it will let you connect (probably) - but will be unbearably slow, unstable, and run a great risk of permanently corrupting your backend database. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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