Connect to web database

[JW]

How can I connect to my online database? I have all the paths etc... I
can't even think where to begin, what would be great would be a front end on
my PC connected via ftp to my backend at my ISP.

Or is this just ridiculous and impossible??

Jon

[Larry Linson]

Re: Connect to web database

FTP -- File Transfer Program is for transferring files (that is, uploading
to a website or downloading from a website), and it does that very well. It
has no provision for connecting your front-end database to a back-end
database at the website.

Unless you have some very exceptional, very, very high-speed connections, it
is not feasible to use a split Access database across the Internet.

There are a number of ways to use that database, but your Access front-end
isn't one of them.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

"JW" <jon_webb@#NOSP AM#yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How can I connect to my online database? I have all the paths etc... I
> can't even think where to begin, what would be great would be a front end[/color]
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> my PC connected via ftp to my backend at my ISP.
>
> Or is this just ridiculous and impossible??
>
> Jon
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[JW]

Re: Connect to web database

That confirms that then - thanks...
Without the ins and out of it could you say what those 'number of ways' are
please?

"Larry Linson" <bouncer@localh ost.not> wrote in message
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> FTP -- File Transfer Program is for transferring files (that is, uploading
> to a website or downloading from a website), and it does that very well.[/color]
It[color=blue]
> has no provision for connecting your front-end database to a back-end
> database at the website.
>
> Unless you have some very exceptional, very, very high-speed connections,[/color]
it[color=blue]
> is not feasible to use a split Access database across the Internet.
>
> There are a number of ways to use that database, but your Access front-end
> isn't one of them.
>
> Larry Linson
> Microsoft Access MVP
>
> "JW" <jon_webb@#NOSP AM#yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:bnjkfl$jsu $1@sparta.btint ernet.com...[color=green]
> > How can I connect to my online database? I have all the paths etc... I
> > can't even think where to begin, what would be great would be a front[/color][/color]
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> on[color=green]
> > my PC connected via ftp to my backend at my ISP.
> >
> > Or is this just ridiculous and impossible??
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Iain Miller]

Re: Connect to web database


"JW" <jon_webb@#NOSP AM#yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> That confirms that then - thanks...
> Without the ins and out of it could you say what those 'number of ways'[/color]
are[color=blue]
> please?
>[/color]

Some kind of thin client application - Citrix ?