What exactly are you trying to do? Simply have the back-end database on the
server, and connect to it from a front-end on your machine? Access doesn't
recognize the HTTP protocol (nor FTP, for that matter), so that's a
non-starter.
--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)
"Malcolm Atteberry" <malcat[ at ]mac.com> wrote in message
news:C0E2E68B.42FD%malcat[ at ]mac.com...
[Quoted Text] > Any Ideas?
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> On 7/17/06 11:12 PM, in article
> nunya-0426E6.23120917072006[ at ]news.isp.giganews.com, "Nunya Bizness"
> <nunya[ at ]biz.no> wrote:
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>> I want to host my Access2003 .mdb database on the internet from my
>> iDisk. The help says it only works with IIS. Is this typical MS Support
>> CYA, or is there some real technical reason/limitation why this cannot
>> be made to work on other webservers?
>>
>> I presume that the iDisk is a MacOS/Unix/Linux machine. I can access the
>> iDisk on the Mac OS or PC via WebDAV over the internet. Other pages work
>> fine on the iDisk.
>>
>> No matter what I change my connection string to, when I browse the page
>> on the PC I get the errors:
>> "Data Provider could not be initialized"
>> and
>> "Not a valid file name"
>>
>> Will this only work with IIS? Any ideas on making it work from my iDisk?
>> Please post your response here.
>>
>> -Mal
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