[AccessD] MDW file

When I comes to my users, I will not claim that anything is
'impossible.' However, I did call out to the department where it is
installed and walked a user through the process of getting to the
properties window and had her tell me exactly what it said. I even
questioned that there was the single quote mark. This was actually one
of my better users too. I should have gone to their office, but it is
across town...not really that far, but it is bitter cold her today and
there is quite a bit of snow too (I know...wahhhhhh!)
 
I just recreated the shortcut and it finally presented me with a login
window. I called to get a login name and apparently the programmer left
no way for them to add users...or delete users...real secure when you
cannot remove a user from the system after they are fired...duh!
 
Anyhow, the whole reason I am doing this is because I need to add a
bunch of new users, and delete another bunch. I work for a county
government and the republicans just took over power from the democrats,
and this means all patronage positions are taken away from the departing
party and given to the new ones (who cares if their good at their jobs
or not, as long as they're part of the majority party). This means all
new attorneys in the county attorney's office, and now I don't seem to
be able to add them.
 
Ideas?!
 
Thanks for the help so far though!
 
John W Clark
 
 


>>> donald.a.Mcgillivray at mail.sprint.com 01/15/04 01:15PM >>>
John,

Is it possible that you're seeing only part (the last part) of the
command line in the shortcut?  The syntax for passing the workgroup on
the command line is: 

Path to msaccess.exe, followed by path and filename of target mdb,
followed by the workgroup switch (/wrkgrp), followed by the path and
filename of target mdw.

For example:

"c:\program files\msoffice\office\msaccess.exe"
"c:\MyDatabases\target.mdb" /wrkgrp "c:\MyDatabases\target.mdw"

Note that quotes around the segments are only critical if there are
spaces in the strings (doesn't hurt to include them, though), and that
the positions of the path to the mdb and the workgroup segment are
interchangeable.  Thus, if the other programmer had put the workgroup
segment before the mdb segment, you might be seeing just the tail end
of
the one followed by the entirety of the other.

Hope this helps.

Don McGillivray



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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Clark
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:47 AM
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Subject: [AccessD] MDW file


This group has helped me so much over the past two years. My
confidence
has increased 1000%, which I attribute directly to my involvement with
this list. Just yesterday, my boss made some crack about an external
programmer that they have used...basically saying that if I get as
good
as him I could do what he does (he is currently taking a year off and
traveling the country in an RV)...and for the first time, I stood up
and
said, "I am just as good, if not better, than [that guy]."

Anyhow, now that I have explained how 'good' I have become, I was
thrown
a twist. Because this guy is out of town, he cannot respond to a call
that they have regarding a program he wrote. It needs to be placed on
the desktops, of another department. "No problem," I said, "I can
handle
it." But I notice in the shortcut that exists, in the original
department, it uses an .MDW file in the target line (ms.mdw"
"c:\program
files\cms\cmssecure.mdb"). I just called to verify this line, because
I
thought that at least a "c was missing from the front...I don't get
the
one quote mark.

I have never used workgroup features of Access, and I really don't
plan
to. What do I need to do to set this up?

Thanks!

John W Clark

John W. Clark
Computer Programmer / Asst. Network Administrator
Niagara County
Central Data Processing
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