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The trick is making the file available without risking your system.
High Risk:
Accessing the database directly involves sharing the file space it resides in with the world. Share the directory, and set your application to reference your database using the network file name \\Machine\Share\Path...mdb.
Lower Risk:
A safer, sometimes easier, alternative involves developing a web based interface giving you some filtering capabilities, although not quite 100% proof against threats it is leagues ahead of just sharing the file. Your application then sends web requests much like a web page form.
Either way, identifying server machine to the world remains your biggest problem.
Oh, the web method also removes the database type from the problem equasion. A web based database is surely destined to grow beyond Access's 1Gb file size limits, FAST.
Wil Mead
wmead@optonline.net
High Risk:
Accessing the database directly involves sharing the file space it resides in with the world. Share the directory, and set your application to reference your database using the network file name \\Machine\Share\Path...mdb.
Lower Risk:
A safer, sometimes easier, alternative involves developing a web based interface giving you some filtering capabilities, although not quite 100% proof against threats it is leagues ahead of just sharing the file. Your application then sends web requests much like a web page form.
Either way, identifying server machine to the world remains your biggest problem.
Oh, the web method also removes the database type from the problem equasion. A web based database is surely destined to grow beyond Access's 1Gb file size limits, FAST.
Wil Mead
wmead@optonline.net
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