Re: Opening an MS Access .mdb file from asp.net

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From: Edge (edge_at_edge.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:36:27 +0100

Dave wrote:
> Jeffrey,
>
> This web app will be hosted internally on our servers in an office of
> 45 people. We all have MS Access installed on our machines, so
> that's all taken care of.
>
> I tried a Response.Redirect(Path to .mdb file), but it wouldn't work.

I suggest creating a network share to the database folder,
and using a link like this:

<a href="\\servername\sharename\databasename.mdb">link</a>

This will work fine if not too many people are opening the
file at the same time.

You can still decide to make the share read-only or read/write. 

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Edge