Re: connect remote Access database

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:41:29 +0800, "wind" <chase@wind> wrote:

¤ Hello
¤
¤ I want to ask how to connect a vb.net window client application to a remote
¤ MS Access databae which is located on a server?
¤ How to set the connection string in order to do so?

It's no different when accessing a file on a network share. Just use the UNC naming convention for
the path to the file as Frans mentioned.

Also keep in mind that all users accessing the database will require full permissions to the folder
where the database file is located.


Paul
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Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
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