Heenan, Lambert
Lambert.Heenan at AIG.com
Tue Dec 18 10:00:28 CST 2007
As Gustav said, the drive has to be shared, and then you need to address it in this form \\NAME OF THE COMPUTER\SHARE NAME Lambert -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Erwin Craps - IT Helps Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:40 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: Putting both Front and Back ends on aremovable drive At my knowledge you can only use that UNC path when referring to a server.... Re-Naming a drive is only a visual thing. \\SERVERNAME\SHARENAME Erwin -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of pcs at azizaz.com Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:15 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problemsolving Cc: pcs at azizaz.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: Putting both Front and Back ends on aremovable drive Darren and Team, ok... I give in ... I put a USB stick in my laptop ... is recognized as E: I name the USB stick to JET_USB ... now displays as JET_USB (E:) in Windows Explorer... I open a cmd dos window and try dir \\JET_USB\*.* and get returned: Network Drive was not found... So what am I not doing right? Regards Borge ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:00:40 +1100 >From: "Darren D" <darren at activebilling.com.au> >Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: Putting both Front and Back ends on aremovable drive >To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > >Hi team >Thanks to those who responded >Brilliant >I get the logic and am using Joe's clever code > >Many thanks >DD > >-----Original Message----- >From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence >Sent: Monday, 17 December 2007 12:45 PM >To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' >Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003: Putting both Front and Back ends on aremovable >drive > >Hi Darren: > >If each drive is named then those names should be able to be used. If one >drive was named BE and the other was named FE then I believe the following >would work when referring to one or the other: > >\\FE\MyFE_Direcory and \\BE\MyBE_Directory > >Jim > >-----Original Message----- >From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darren D >Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 4:32 PM >To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' >Subject: [AccessD] A2003: Putting both Front and Back ends on a removable >drive > >Hi Team > > > >I have a client who has one of those portable laptop drives in a USB case - >Cool > > > >He wants both the front and back ends of his APP to reside on this drive but >wants the Front > >end and Back end to still remain separate - for ease of use of data backup - >Cool also > > > >This means getting the front end to 'talk' to the back end without using >drive >letters etc > > > >In the old DOS days you could use a syntax (I have forgotten it) to simply >refer >to 'things' > >on the current drive and even current folder > > > >Does anyone know how I would go about linking the FE and BE on the same >drives > >(In this case a removable one) thus without using drive letters etc? > > > >Many thanks in advance > > > >DD > >-- >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >-- >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >-- >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com