Recent content by nencoin

Hi. I will try to help you out, but if I can't, I'm sure Randy will be able to if he sees this post. On the XP machines, I assume you have a shortcut on the desktop that points to the Access database on the server. If you right click on the shortcut and select properties, you will see the target...

Okay, good. I'll pick up that Dell. Fortunately, it is used solely as a server. I'll have the database on it, our fax software, Gotomypc, AVG and that's it. We do a nightly off-site backup of the database, so we're good to go there as far as backup is concerned. Thanks for the help, Randy!

I wanted to add that the current CPU that is acting as the server has the following specs: Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHZ 2.99 GB Ram

Thank you for the reply, Randy. It sounds like just a beefy CPU is the way to go. I am thinking something like this model should offer plenty of bang for the buck, with a seemingly fast processor and plenty of RAM. Any input you can offer on this particular machine...

Hi. I have a small office network consisting of around seven computers. They are connected via a Netgear ProSafe GS108T switch and all are connected at gigabit speed. They are all accessing a single Access database on a CPU that acts as a dedicated server. I'm currently upgrading all the...

Randy, that did it! I modified the shortcut just like you said and it worked! Thanks SO much.

Thank you for the reply, Randy! All machines are running the same version of Access. The database does not have a front end on the local machines. I will try adding a path to the local Access to the shortcut line. I'll keep you posted. Chris

I have a small network of six computers. Five of them run XP and I just added a Windows 7 machine. I've got a Microsoft Access 2003 database that all of the computers share that is hosted on one of the XP machines. The Windows 7 machine can access the Access database through the network just...