Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu May 29 17:59:33 CDT 2003
I think the Start In box is supposed to have the path to your program files location. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Porter, Mark [mailto:MPorter at acsalaska.com] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:47 PM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Command Line WRKGRP switch - revisited Good point, I've noticed the 'fixit' behavior with WinXP pro shortcuts also. But this shortcut was built on the machine itself (WinXP with a UNC workgroup filepath, double-quotes around each filepath like "<msaccess.exe>" /wrkgrp "<.mdw with UNC pathing>" ".mdb file path") I've also cleared the 'Start In' box to avoid it starting in the wrong place. I'm stumped. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:43 PM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Command Line WRKGRP switch - revisited Um, complete shot in the dark, but since W2k, Shortcuts have more internal information then you think. For instance, if you have a shortcut pointing to something.exe on your root C: drive. Then one day you move that .exe to another drive or folder, W2k and up will actually 'fix' your shortcut for you. (It's a service, so it may be turned off or on, it can even be setup to be LAN wide). One bad effect that myself and my co-network admin has noticed, is that you can have problems trying to copy a network shortcut from one machine to the next, because the shortcut is actually a shortcut to a internal reference on your local machine, that points to the network resource, so copying the shortcut elsewhere is giving them a shortcut to your local internal reference/shortcut, which they may not be able to access, in fact, it will usually try to access the same file/folder location on your local machine. To fix this, we just made new shortcuts from scratch. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Porter, Mark [mailto:MPorter at acsalaska.com] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:12 PM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Command Line WRKGRP switch - revisited Thanks for the responses, which fixed a lot of the issue. However, on a WinXP Pro machine I'm getting an error on the /wrkgrp switch. it is looking for the *.mdw filepath by starting in the local documents and settings, instead of using the UNC path. Has anyone seen/fixed this behavior? Thanks, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Porter, Mark [mailto:MPorter at acsalaska.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:11 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Command Line WRKGRP switch After the responses all had the msaccess.exe executible path I recalled that it was required with the other times that I've implemented it. I never did know why though. Thanks for clearing it up. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:59 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Command Line WRKGRP switch Charles answered your question, but the reason it isn't working is because *all* command line arguments are ignored if you do not include the full path and filename to the Access executable in your shortcut. Since /WRKGRP is a command line argument, it gets ignored when you only include the database path and the workgroup and leave out the Access executable. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Porter, Mark [mailto:MPorter at acsalaska.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:39 PM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: [AccessD] Command Line WRKGRP switch I have a secured Access 2000 file format database and want to use the /wrkgrp command line switch in a shortcut to associate with the workgroup on startup. This command switch is not working ( F:\sis\CCA_App.mdb /WRKGRP "F:\sis\CCA_Workgroup.mdw" ) the user accesses the correct file but under the system.mdw workgroup. I've verified that the file locations and the spelling are all correct. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark This transmittal may contain confidential information intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply or by telephone (collect at 907-564-1000) and ask to speak with the message sender. In addition, please immediately delete this message and all attachments. 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