I'm not a database expert or anything, but we have about thirty people
sharing this database and have had zero problems with anything database
related. Sure we have idiots that "forget" to update the database, but
that is not Access' problem. Once you use workstation manager to get
access, then everything else is easy.
In this case, I like the old saying "If it ain't broke, then don't fix it."
By the way, we use this database heavily and have had it for over two
years.
In any case I found a solution, I have an old laptop that I will use for
my work related stuff. I have a docking station for it as well so can
use it at work and at home. Now I can remove Office from my home PC.
Now if only Turbo Tax and Quicken were available for Linux
Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Jose Mirles wrote:
>
>> No couldn't do that. It hold too much info shared by too many others.
>
>
> Sorry, but that's (IMHO) exactly where Access falls short - sharing. For
> one thing, everyone has to buy Office. For another, have you ever tried
> enabling shared access to a .mdb file ? It results in chaos. Invariably.
>
> If you want to share things, the way to go would be to set up a database
> probably with web access where everybody has an account. You are more
> flexible that way as well.
>
>
> I have done this (converted Access to PHP/Mysql or Perl frontends) several
> times. The users were happy afterwards, without exception.
>
>
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