Good afternoon,

 

I have an old application running on an NT server in an equally old NT domain.  
It is the last app I need to figure out how to make work on a new 2003 domain.  
Here's what I did:

 

1)       Copied the application's folder to the new server, and ran the app. 
(It's an Access MDE)

2)       When I try to do anything, like run the employee roster, it says it 
can not connect to \\server\share\some_database.mdb 
<file:///\\server\share\some_database.mdb> 

3)       I modified the hosts file so server is set to 127.0.0.1.  If I ping 
server, it resolves "properly".  If I try mapping a drive to \\server 
<file:///\\server> , however, I see the shares on the old server so I don't 
think my trick worked on UNCs.

 

Any ideas how to make this work?  I copied the DB the app is looking for into 
the same directory structure.  It was written in 2000, and the developer is 
long gone.  I don't see anything in the MDE that makes a call to the outside, 
but from what I understand, there is probably some VB code that I can't 
see/edit because of the format.

 

I really hope I'm not handcuffed to an ancient network because of an ancient 
app!

 

Thanks,

 

Eric Brown

IT Manager

Forest Post Productions

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(248) 855-4333

 


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