Thanks again AnandaSim. Your information does help me a lot but I 'm very
stupid with the computer--new with everything. From reading your answer, it
seems like I do have to "Map a network Drive" on my computer first, don't I?
Let's say if I map a network drive with "Z"drive, in the folder it should be
something like this "\\my computer name\Share\my database_be" right? I'm not
sure I understand the whole thing that you gave me and again, please forgive
me if it's a silly question. Thanks a million for your assistance! Have a
wonderful day.
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Nikki
AnandaSim said:
Each front end must know where the common back end is. For people who
have a common server, they put the back end on the server and it
appears like an extra drive - e.g. W: so all front ends can reference
the back end as W:\blah\blah
For people who don't have a server, then the back end is sitting on
one machine and the other machines use the first machine.
Every front end must be able to see the back end - hence to make
things simple, I make all front ends see the back end (using Linked
Table Manager) using the UNC naming convention e.g.
\\firstmachinename\networksharedname\blah.mdb
That way, all my front ends are identical and you simply copy the
front ends to any machine without further adjustment.
Thanks again AnandaSim. Your information does help me a lot but I 'm very
stupid with the computer--new with everything. From reading your answer, it
seems like I do have to "Map a network Drive" on my computer first, don't I?
Let's say if I map a network drive with "Z"drive, in the folder it should be
something like this "\\my computer name\Share\my database_be" right? I'm not
sure I understand the whole thing that you gave me and again, please forgive
me if it's a silly question. Thanks a million for your assistance! Have a
wonderful day.