[AccessD] Can't open form

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 10:50:34 CDT 2009


In a case like that if the workstations have high speed network 
connection then simply downloading the FE every time they use it works 
as well.  The "image" issue does make installation of custom DLLs and 
OCXs problematic.

Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I recently did a project for a government ministry. My original thought was
> to put a local copy of the FE on each PC and a single copy of the BE on a
> server, and was given a flat no. The guy went on to explain that all local
> PCs are created from a single image, so anything added since then would be
> destroyed the next time the drive was imaged. I could see his point. Every
> once in a while, say when they decide to upgrade Office or something, they
> just recreate the image file and then update the thousand or so PCs
> scattered around the province, all done remotely. I definitely see the sense
> in this approach.
>
> Arthur
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Tony Septav <iggy at nanaimo.ark.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks Gustav
>> I will try to register the existing ocx and see if that solves the
>> problem  first. If not and as you are saying it shouldn't cause a
>> problem on her machine (that is what bothered me, goofing around with
>> someone elses settings, also they have a very possessive/territorial IT
>> group who would love nothing better than to clobber a contractor for
>> screwing something up), I will follow your instructions and rename the
>> exisiting ocx and copy in my ocx.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>>
>>
>>     

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