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Thread: How do you run query`s on a remote Access Database??

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    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!!!

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    James Stenerson.

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    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

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    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.

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    Thankyou very much, I will give it try. This is all kinda new to me so thankyou.

    James Stenerson

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