Can form results be sent to database just using local network, not internet?

[Edie Dasher]

I represent a public charity that has lots of volunteers
who register online using frontpage form and the results
are sent to an access database through the web hosting
company. For people who show up without having
registered, we need to set up a network of three computers
which would have the same form, but not hooked up to the
Internet: Is there anyway to send the results to the
access database without using a web based server, just
using the hard drive of our computers to collect the data
entered in a form on that computer and send it to the
access data base on that same hard drive?

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FP]]

If the OS on the computers supports a local web server (Win2K, Win XP Pro),
you could install IIS and publish a copy of your web site to the local
computer and it could write the data to a database in the local web.

 

[Rick Budde]

You want to be updating just one database. If you have
three databases on three different PC's and another one
on the server of your web service provider, very quickly
you will have four different databases no single one of
which contains all your volunteer information. You could
liken this to four people spending money out of one
checkbook. How does anyone know the checkbook balance?

Your stipulation "would have the same form, but not
hooked up to the Internet" leads me to assume that some
volunteers will be filling out paper forms and you want
that data entered into the database (or that they may be
wanting to fill out forms on the spot at a conference or
something).

Why not fill out the forms on the active website and ALL
of the data will be included in one database? You have
the advantage of doing this from any computer in the
whole world not just the three computers you mention in
your question.

I hope I have interpreted your question correctly and
that what I have given you helps you in thinking through
your problem.