Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Sat Apr 26 21:54:52 CDT 2008
AAaaaargh! He put MS Office on the D drive, not the C drive. All works now. Thanks! Dan -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:57 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Secured Access Shortcut on VMWare Virtual Server ...you can't do a search for msaccess.exe from explorer? William -------------------------------------------------- From: "Dan Waters" <dwaters at usinternet.com> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 4:40 PM To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>; "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: [AccessD] Secured Access Shortcut on VMWare Virtual Server > At an existing customer, I am trying to move my system to a virtual server > (VMWare) they have created for this application. I use a shortcut to open > the FE, which uses an .mdw file for user names and passwords. > > For this to work, the shortcut's target field needs three arguments: the > full path to MSAccess.exe, the full path to the FE .mdb, and then the full > path to the workgroup .mdw file. However, the shortcut doesn't 'see' the > MSAccess.exe file - probably for the same reason that I can't see the > Microsoft Office folder under the Program Files folder (even though hidden > folders is on). > > Access is installed somewhere, because I can open a new or existing > unsecured Access database. > > Can something be changed so that the shortcut can see the full path to > Access? > > Thanks! > Dan > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com