[AccessD] Replication by CD copy

Dear Group,

I'm attempting to set up replication for an Access XP application I've written. I developed the database in Access 2000 on my office w/s using a FE/BE scheme. I made my office copy of the BE the Design Master (I only replicated the BE; the FE isn't replicated) and I made one Replica from it to be the Hub, I believe it's called.

I made a replica from the Hub and wrote it to a CD to take to my client's site. There I copied it to his main workstation and proceeded to make replicas of it to be distributed to a number of laptops that won't be connected to his network *at all*.

My question is this: if the owners of these laptops periodically make CD copies of their replicas and mail them to the home office of my client and he synchronizes them with the main PC copy...and then makes copies onto CD and mails them back to the laptop owners and *they* synchronize with their replicas...would that work OK? There doesn't seem to be any other practical way for these laptop copies to by synched with the Main Office except by mailing CDs back and forth.

My concern is if a laptop owner makes a CD copy of the replicated BE and mails it off, and then proceeds to enter and edit more data before he gets an up-to-date CD from the home office, would that mess up the replication scheme? I'm guessing No, it wouldn't; but I'm not sure. Of course, the documentation for replication is a monumental dud.

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI