[AccessD] Office on a server - where did it go?

William Hindman wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Wed Jun 3 06:41:13 CDT 2009


Stu

...ie says it isn't there?

William

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From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:31 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office on a server - where did it go?

> Never run into it, but it was an interesting problem, so I've knocked up a 
> quick tool to help.
>
> 1.  Download http://www,lexacorp.com.pg/soft/FindOpener.zip
> 2.  Extract the 18KB executable and place it on the desktop
> 3.  Drag an MDB, DOC,PDF or whatever onto the executable.
>
> It will display a message box showing the \SHELL\OPEN\command in the 
> Registry which
> will tell you exactly where to find Access.Exe or whatever is used to open 
> the particular file
> type.
>
> Enjoy,
> Stuart
>
> On 2 Jun 2009 at 20:36, jwcolby wrote:
>
>>
>> I think what is going on is that the office was made part of a domain 
>> that exists at another office.
>>   As such I am guessing that my user is "virtual" or whatever you call 
>> it, and thus it can use
>> office even though it is actually installed somewhere else, probably in 
>> that other office.
>>
>> Has anyone ever run into this?
>
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