Open Access MDB from Browser

[Mike Morisoli]

I have a client who would like to start adding links to Access databases
from IE but my tests don't work. It appears that no matter what type of
file://<path> I use, Access won't actually start. From what I can guess, IE
is trying to download the MDB to the local machine's cache and run it from
there.



Does anybody know of a way to open an MDB from a browser?



Perhaps there is a setting in IE...



Thanks for any suggestions, Mike

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

You're correct, IE will download the MDB to the local hard disk, and open it
from there. That's the only way it can work using a simple link in IE. There
are, of course, other technologies, such as ASP or ASP.NET, that can be used
to provide remote access to Jet databases, but simply adding a link to the
MDB in an ordinary HTML page is not going to work.
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