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hi.

can anyone tell me the connectionstring for connecting to an ms access database over a network?

only the second part, where you specify the location of the database, is needed. i know how to specify the jet engin.

let me give an example.

to connect to a local dbs the connection string would be:
c:\\localFolder\\localDbs.mdb

but how do i specify a database on a computer on the network?
let say this computer's name is databaseServer and the database is on the c drive?

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this is OK. I figured it out. I suppose i should have experimented before posting.

in case anyone else cares the way is to specify the computer on the network. like so:

@"databaseserver\c\remotefolder\remotedatabase.mdb"

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Good morning,

Please, can you give me the code to connect to the access database on a shared folder. This code didn't work for me:

OleDbConnection aConnection = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + "Data Source=@//ServerName//SharedDocs//CS//db1.mdb");

What do I need to do?

Thanks in advance,

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