Both sites need internet access (or usually much more expensive a leased
private line between them). Others have posted the various posibilities for
using an internet connection, all of which require a fairly high speed line
to be useful, e.g. 56K modem won't cut it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cristina Formica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 3:30 PM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] RE: Remote access
>
>
> When I say remote access, I mean access to the
> database from computers outside of the office. How
> does this work? How would I access a database that is
> in DC if I am in my house in Northern Virginia?
> --- Barry Madore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think there may be some confusion as to the term
> > "remote access."  By
> > "remote access" Marshall and the other responders
> > are referring to access to
> > the database from computers outside the office (like
> > dialing in to the
> > office from home). This is the technical definition
> > of remote access. To
> > make this type of accessing efficient fast Internet
> > connections are
> > essential as Marshall noted.
> >
> > If by "remote access" you mean, however, that you
> > need more than one
> > computer in your office to access the database
> > simultaneously, this is quite
> > easy to do. You will want to have FileMaker on each
> > computer to make this
> > networking most effective.  One computer will host
> > the ebase files;  the
> > other computers will access these files across the
> > network via a feature
> > built in to the Filemaker software.
> >
> > --
> > Barry Madore
> > Technology & Web Development Specialist
> > MAP for Nonprofits
> > Direct:  651/632-7235
> > MAP:  651/647-1216
> > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > MAP web:  http://www.mapnp.org
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