[AccessD] Multiple Frontend Users

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Tue May 20 06:52:40 CDT 2008


I was presented with this problem recently and recommended this solution.
The network support people flatly refused it. They argued that in their
setup (with hundreds of users) virtually nothing on the local PCs was backed
up. The local PCs can be replaced and/re-imaged anytime, and users are
warned not to store anything locally, otherwise it won't be backed up. So I
had no choice but to put both the FE and the BE on a network share. The
argument makes perfect sense to me, but I've never done it that way before.
What will happen when a hundred users open a single FE? Should I replace the
FE MDB with an MDE?

Thanks,
Arthur

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Dan Waters <dwaters at usinternet.com> wrote:

> Ed,
>
> Even with 3 users, splitting is a good preventive measure to avoid data
> corruption.  You can put the Access Back End .mdb file on the server, and
> put the Front end .mdb files on each user's PC.  Managing 3 users shouldn't
> be difficult.
>



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