Suggest you post this question to the Access and/or IE newsgroups, as it is not FP related.
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Thomas A. Rowe
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"Jim C" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:042EA3F0-3367-472D-8D72-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ok I understand this, But when I get the download dialog I select "open" then
> and get the logon password dialog. Which is what I want. I enter the
> password and Access starts"splash screen" then I'm prompted for another
> "logon password dialog" again (2 times total). Is the a way to skip over the
> "download dialog" with maybe a script or something and a way to have the
> "logon password dialog" prompt me once. Any help whould be appriecated.
>
> "Mark Fitzpatrick" wrote:
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>> If I understand it, you aren't actually doing anything wrong. Most browsers
>> will always try to see if you want to download a file or run it. This was
>> done to avoid a lot of viruses and nasty scripts from getting automatically
>> executed without the user knowing what was going on. Since an Access DB is
>> not what is known as an Active Document (basically a document whose
>> application can be an embedded COM object such as Word or Excel) it can't
>> open it within the browser so it must offer the run dialog.
>>
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>> Hope this helps,
>> Mark Fitzpatrick
>> Former Microsoft FrontPage MVP 199?-2006
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>> "Jim C" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:C55CAF4B-A6DC-4D67-9367-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > I'm hope this is a simple fix, I setting up a local intranet website with
>> > FP
>> > and I am making a hyperlink to a Access DB "*.mdb" When you click on the
>> > hyperlink it returns a download dialog box, but when you go to the local
>> > file
>> > thru Win explorer the program launches just fine, What am I doing wrong?
>> > any suggestions?
>>
>>
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