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JamesStenerson
Jul 18th, 2000, 04:09 PM
This question may sound dumb to most people, but I have to access a database on a network and run SQL statements against it. The databases sits on a Win95 box and they are Access databases (.mdb). The server (NT Server 4.0) does not have the IIS running. The only way I know how to connect to these databases would be through ODBC. However with no web server running, the request will not be processed.
Is there a way to run query`s on a remote database with no web server?

Please Help!!!

Thankyou

James Stenerson.

Clunietp
Jul 19th, 2000, 02:10 AM
can you access the DB using a network share? If its over a LAN (not the internet), you'd be better off just creating a network share on one of your file servers

then you would connect to it as:
\\computername\sharename\dbname.mdb

instead of
c:\foldername\dbname.mdb

jsayson
Jul 19th, 2000, 10:39 AM
Don't worry if you don't have a web server as long as you still have a file server. ODBC connections will of course still work and I think its still the easiest way to do it.

JamesStenerson
Jul 19th, 2000, 12:15 PM
Thankyou very much, I will give it try. This is all kinda new to me so thankyou.

James Stenerson