Kathryn Bassett
kathryn at bassett.net
Wed Mar 22 13:05:30 CST 2006
Phil, I'm forwarding your message to a list called AccessD run by DataBaseAdvisors http://www.databaseadvisors.com/lists/whatandhow.htm as the scope of your request is beyond my skills. I highly recommend you join the list right away to see answers from people who reply to the list instead of directly to you. I'm positive someone will be able to help you. -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" kathryn at bassett.net http://bassett.net -----Original Message----- From: Phil Huisman [mailto:pbhuisman at msn.com] Sent: 21 Mar 2006 7:02 am To: kathryn at bassett.net Subject: Ken Rhinehart My name is Phil Huisman and your brother Ken gave me your name as a possible contact for help with Microsoft Access. I recently developed an Access database program for a ministry I am involved with at Glenkirk Church called Shepherd's Pantry. We need a DB to track people we serve so I decided to give it a try. After some struggling, I have managed to create a DB I think will meet our needs but there is one problem: we have a network of three PC's at the Pantry and the DB cannot be updated by all three PC's. I did manage to get all three PC's to share the DB but only in the 'read only' mode. Any changes to the database on PC's 2 or 3 cannot be saved? We get an error message but I forget exactly what the message says. I am using Microsoft Office 2003 Access, and XP Home operating system on new Dell PC's. The three PC's are networked together through a Linksys router. I take it we cannot just use standard Access in a network and be able to update the database from multiple PC's? It occurred to me we made need to have a dedicated server running Windows NT or something like that? Anyway, I hope this makes sense and would certainly appreciate any help you can provide. Thank you, Phil Huisman