Installation Newbie

[projecttoday]

I am trying to create an installation setup for my Visual Basic 6 program which uses an Access database. I need to know what to include in the script. I am using INNO for the setup script. I specified the Visual Basic files plus the database (.mdb) file as my input. So I tested it on a computer which does not have Access installed and the screens work and it allows me to read the database but not write to it. What do I have to do to allow me to write to my Access database? Source computer has VB 6, Windows XP Home, and Access 2002 (Office Pro). Target computer has Windows 98, no Access.

Or is it possible that there is some other problem which prevents me from writing to the database?

Robert

 

[SonOfEmidec1100]

This may be obvious but have you checked if the Read only attribute is set on the mdb file ?

 

[projecttoday]

Writing to the database is done on the source computer.

 

[MatDavies]

I don't quite understand, you are installing the application on to the windows98 machine, and you can't write data from that machine?

are you trying to share the database, or does each copy of the app have its own database?


Matt

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you obviously haven't grasped the seriousness of the situation

 

[projecttoday]

I am trying to install it on a Windows 98 machine. I can read the data but can't write data on that machine. There is no Access and no VB installed on that machine.

I can read and write data on the original machine (XP). Access and VB are installed on the original machine.

It's just a simple one-computer application.