data access page and connection string

[thinekeretw]

I have saved a data access page to a iis web server. I need to write the
connection string for the page to the following data base located on the iis
server. http://busdiv-iis.solano.cc.ca.us/fpdb/cancelled.mdb. I have
learned that I need a unc path. The data access page resides at
http://busdiv-iis.solano.cc.ca.us. Help FrontPage2003 and Access 2003.

 

[Sylvain Lafontaine]

UNC paths are for Intranets (or LAN) only. You cannot access a MDB file
over the Internet in an easy way. This require some other transport layer,
such as a VPN or the RDS (Remote Data Service).

Bad luck, the RDS has been deprecated by Microsoft many years ago because of
deep security concerns.

The usual way of using ADP and DAP over the internet is to use MSDE or
SQL-Server as the backend instead of an MDB file. An easier solution for
you would be to use ASP or ASP.NET.

S. L.

 

[thinekeretw]

Thank you for the data Sylvain. I have obtained a asp.net book and have
begun educating myself.