visual basic access connection

[brownfox]

Hope this is the right forum for this. I have undertaken the task of moving a small office access datadase to the web and convert it to mySQL. They are on a small network and share their access database but none of the staff can access the .db. A visual basic error appears. It seems that a small vb program is used so that the network can share the db. Is this usual? and does anyone know any good tutorials/pages that I can start to find out what the problem is and the methods of this sort of connection? Unfortunately I cannot remember the exact error message but, while debugging, the program is sticking at the 'keep connection alive' part, the very last line of the program. Thanks in advance.