Re: Access 2000 on Windows XP Home Edition

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 06/26/03 

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:08:28 -0600

Greetings --

    Place the database on a machine running a server operating system.
;-} Actually, you might be able to get it to work on a WinXP Pro
machine, assuming you've turned off Simple File Sharing (which cannot
be done on WinXP Home) and set the permissions properly.

Bruce Chambers

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"Harold Urman" <hurman@vitalresearch.com> wrote in message
news:0ecf01c33b7f$39988c90$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I have an Access database on a Windows XP machine.  We run
> a peer-to-peer network and users who do not have XP on
> their machines are unable to open the database across the
> network once it has been opened on the XP machine.  The
> message is "The Microsoft Jet Database Engine cannot open
> the file.  It is already opened exclusively by another
> user, or you need permission to access the data".  On our
> network, everyone has permission to access (read & write)
> files and we do not have this problem with any other
> program in MS office or other programs.  Any ideas?

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