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Re: DATABASE on RH



On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 06:52:18PM -0500, Steven E. Frazier really opened up and said:
: John,
: 
: Does that mean that you could have a .mdb file sitting on a linux box say
: under samba and
: NT/95 boxes running Access could access the file?
: 
: Can it also be accessed from a web server running on linux?
: 
: Thanks.
: 
: Steve

You can certainly have an .mdb sitting on a Samba share. This is
nothing more than simple file sharing. The same works with FoxPro
.dbf's, too.

One thing I noticed was that queries against a largish .dbf on a share didn't
work so well. The problem may have been hardware; the box had an old
NIC and just 16MB of RAM and was something of a junker. It merited
further research but the box was confiscated for other purposes.

Fred Noltie

-- 
"The road to tyranny, we must never forget,
is the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton,
15 Oct 1995 speech at the University of Connecticut


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