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gregeney - 16 May 2007 20:52 GMT

I'm trying to share my Access database and mailmerge templates that link with
that database with the other two users on our peer-to-peer network. I'm
having trouble in that the link to the database needs to be reset every time
a template is used on one of the other machines due to the difference in the
database location. Meaning, it's not on their C: drive. Is there a way for
these other users to save their own link to the database or another solution
to achieve what we need?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 16 May 2007 21:36 GMT

Perhaps a better idea would be to use Windows Live Folder Share to have the
data base replicated on each of the machines

See https://www.foldershare.com/

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> I'm trying to share my Access database and mailmerge templates that link
> with
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gregeney - 16 May 2007 22:42 GMT

Not just the database, but also the templates. They are chenged from time to
time. But if I can sync my templates and database on the other machines, it
should give me the desired result. However, from first glance at the
FolderShare information it appears that the folders are synced over the net?
If that is true, is there any solution that would keep our data behind our
firewall? Security is essential.

Thx

> Perhaps a better idea would be to use Windows Live Folder Share to have the
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 17 May 2007 06:20 GMT

If security is that essential, then I think that what you need is a proper
network, or something like

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkStorage/SC101T.aspx

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