Re: run access.exe on server side

Steve wrote:
> Rick, you make a very good point. The MSACCESS.EXE file would be run
> on the server itself, but all other resources would be pulled off of
> the client machine.

Still incorrect. Even if all of the necessary additional resources were
available locally then the MSAccess.exe file on the server would be loaded
into local memory and it would still be executed by the local PC. This
would be no different then double-clicking an executable in Network
Neighborhood. When you do that you are telling your local copy of Windows
to execute this file on the network. If it runs it will be running on the
local box, not on the remote box.

To make a program actually run on the remote box you have to somehow tell
the OS on the remote box to run the program. In most cases this is not
possible unless you have some sort of special program on your PC that can
issue commands to other PCs.

> In theory (completely untested, just throwing this out), you would be
> able to write a quick batch file that opens the desired MDB file, then
> place the batch file on the server and call that instead of calling
> the MDB file directly. Gil, an example of such a batch file would be:
> start "Drive:\Path\To\MDB"

You might be able to *Schedule* the batch file using the scheduler on the
server, but you would not be able to call it. Calling it would just do as
described above which is to attempt to run the remote program inside the
local OS. A scheduler on the remote box would differ in that now the OS on
the remote box is telling itself to run the program.


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