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network access to Program Files folder on another PC?
Posted by James Houston on November 15th, 2005


Here's my problem: There's a pc in our office which uses a program that
stores its data in the same directory as its executable. I don't see any
way to change the program to point to another data folder. I occasionally
need to query this database (it's an Access db). Is it possible to share
this file so that I and I alone have read access? If so, how? Thanks in
advance.


Posted by Steven L Umbach on November 16th, 2005


You can't share just a file. You would have to share the whole folder. In XP
Pro you could configure the share to them only allow access from your user
account. --- Steve


"James Houston" <houstjd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Here's my problem: There's a pc in our office which uses a program that
> stores its data in the same directory as its executable. I don't see any
> way to change the program to point to another data folder. I occasionally
> need to query this database (it's an Access db). Is it possible to share
> this file so that I and I alone have read access? If so, how? Thanks in
> advance.
>