Mcgillivray, Donald [ITS]
donald.a.Mcgillivray at mail.sprint.com
Thu Sep 18 16:45:08 CDT 2003
Hello, All I'm building a system that needs data from another Access db. The remote db is secured using user-level security, and I had hoped to be able to get data out of it without forcing a login to its workgroup. Not that it's out of the question, just that I'd rather not if I can avoid it. My first thought was to write a procedure that connects to the remote source, gets the needed data, and pushes it into a temporary table. Then I can do what I want with the data until it's time to purge and refresh it again. My initial experiments have been unsuccessful, but I'm not sure I understand the available methods to do such a thing. I've searched the help, and cannot find a reference to any techniques for passing a username and password to a remote db. I've found references to doing so using an ODBC connected data source, but not a Jet one. So, is it possible to do what I want? Or am I going to have to route users of the new system through the workgroup of the remote one if I want to make the data available? Any examples, tips or references to helpful resources will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Don McGillivray