"Rance R" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have an Acc97 database which has been in use for about a
> month. It is a split database, but both front and back
> ends are currently on the server. (Still doing further
> development.)
> There a roughly 35 users that use the db.
I would give each user a copy of the frontend. There are methods you can
use to distribute updates to the frontend. See Tony Toews' site for one.
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/autofe.htm
>
> Recently some users - and it appears to be user accessing
> for the first time - have been getting a message that they
> can't open it because another user has it open. It is a
> shared db. What would cause this to happen?
All users need modify permissions on the folder. They need to be able to
create/delete the associated ldb file.
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Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP
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