[Techtalk] Access and Samba

[Poppy]

> Any brave souls out there try sharing an Access database via Samba? I have a
> 
> client who has a large number of custom order forms (Visual basic of course)
> 
> in Access. He is retiring his NT4 server, and replacing it with Linux. The 
> Linux box will be a domain controller, file server, and email server with 
> Postfix. (Firewall is a separate Snapgear box)

Since Access creates a single-file, relational database, there shouldn't
be any problem hosting it over Samba. It's the multi-file (flat-file)
databases that have the most problems.

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