URGENT - connecting to ms access database

On Thu 18 May 2006 08:04:40a, horseisbrown wrote in
macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev:

> OK, I'm trying to make a database connection on my macintosh to a MS
> Access database which can be accessed via ftp on a drive at my
> university. Firstly, is this even possible? and secondly, how on earth
> do I do it?!
> (or I could put the access file on my mac and connect to it there,
> but again,
> I'm not sure how to do this either, obviously I am new to all this)

OpenOffice.org's Base ( http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html) says
that it can read Access files. It has a native OS X port. I haven't used
it recently, so I can't offer comment on how well it works.

Your access file won't work on the Mac so their is no point in putting it
there. If the machine on the university can be turned into a server and
access via an IP then you could create a connection to a remote server from
your mac. The easiest way to do this is via a DSN conenction.

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Paul Whitham
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"horseisbrown" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> OK, I'm trying to make a database connection on my macintosh to a MS
> Access
> database which can be accessed via ftp on a drive at my university.
> Firstly, is
> this even possible? and secondly, how on earth do I do it?!
> (or I could put the access file on my mac and connect to it there, but
> again,
> I'm not sure how to do this either, obviously I am new to all this)
> Thanks for the help.
>