Terminal access database

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Ok need advice please...
I currently have an access database that i would like my friends to access
and use remotely from their PC's similtanously.
From what I understand I have to split the database to a frontend and
backend.Then create a MDE using the frontend so they can gain access and make
data updates and use it basically but not edit any code or tables/queries
reports etc.
I use windows XP, so i am assuming i have to use some terminal software so
they can be given access to a windows screen where i have installed the
Frontend MDE(but cant access any other part of my pc)Obviously my host PC has
to be connected to the internet for them to gain access.
Is this the best and easiest way to do what i am trying to achieve?
any free terminal server programs that are useful.also assume i have to use
the autofe updater if i make changes and so on.
just want to make sure i am on the right track here.
thanks heaps
mark
 
With a Windows XP computer, you have a license for up to 2 simultaneous
Terminal Services connections. More than that will require a server and a
Terminal Server license and software. You could also use Citrix. I am
unaware of any free terminal server that can handle more than a single
connection, although there is a linux project:

http://www.ltsp.org/

that you may want to investigate. My personal experiences with linux have
been less than satisfying.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
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Arvin, how do you make two connections to a Windows XP Pro machine?

When I remote into any machine with Win XP Pro, it bumps the current
session. So, whether or not you're licensed for two sessions, I've only
ever gotten one out of it. Is there a registry setting or config property
to change?
 
Well, let me put it this way. I have a machine at home that I can access
remotely, but it's also the only machine that has Spider Solitaire on it. (My
wife is addicted so we deleted it from her laptop.) So, when she needs a
fix, she hops on my Win XP Pro machine and launches her game. Then, when
I try to log on, it bumps her session.

Now, if there were a 12-step program for Spider Solitaire, it would probably
approve of my interruption of her game, but for now at least, I think she has
her addiction under control and I can trust her to stick to a game or two. So,
I'd like to be able to log in and NOT bump her from the session, but I wasn't
aware of how that might be done.

Actually, I should ask the Windows NG, but since this thread was started, it
seemed like an appropriate question.
 
Danny J. Lesandrini said:
Arvin, how do you make two connections to a Windows XP Pro machine?

When I remote into any machine with Win XP Pro, it bumps the current
session. So, whether or not you're licensed for two sessions, I've only
ever gotten one out of it. Is there a registry setting or config property
to change?
Click to expand...

Same thing happens for me. And my friend and I can simultaneously hit
our Windows 2003 Server.

Tony
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Yeah, I have a Server 2003 machine, but had to delete the games
off of that one too. The addiction was deep :-)
 
Di some more research and found xpunlimited program works ok, i tried 3
connections using a remote computer and worked ok. Just slow however but from
what i am reading its just expected if im only connecting 512k speed to 512k
speed broadband.
 

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