Access DB Not Opening If Specific Drive Letter Not Mapped
Mar 25, 2015
I've inherited a few Access DB monstrosities. One of which had ODBC credentials hard coded in the MDE which I had to recently update due to some server updates. I found an unsplit version of the Access DB on a development drive (j:db...) and updated the credentials hard coded in VB and updated the linked tables from the J drive path (dev) to the K drive path (prod). I then split the DB and the MDE worked fine for me. I quickly found out that it only works fine because I had J mapped still. End users do not have the J drive mapped (development) only the K (production). Without the J drive mapped to the actual dev path the Access DB simply doesn't load. No errors.
I then tried to find any references to J in VB and fix those. At this point I can't seem to find anything else that could be referencing the J drive but still the DB will not open without J mapped.
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May 16, 2005
Hi:
I have a front-end and back-end database.
Front end is at //fserv/database
back end is at //fserv/database/administration
I have sent front end path to users and they can bookmark it to find front-end. When I linked to the backend in the administration folder I had the path mapped to drive T:
Problem is the users do not have this same mapping to drive T: They may have other paths already mapped to that drive.
The users are getting the message:"t: est.mdb is not a valid path. Make sure the path name is spelled correctly and that you are connected to the server on which the file resides."
Is there anyway to link the the backend tables using just a path like:
//fserv/database/administration
Thanks in Advance!
Steve
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My workaround was to temporarily map the URL to a vacant drive letter on the local machine, then copy the file over, then drop the mapped drive again. A bit clunky but doesn't incorporate much of a delay and this download only has to happen once per day.
The good news is, the file download / copy now works every time. The bad news is that removing the temporarily mapped drive after the copy has taken place, doesn't and I can't figure out why.
Here are the functions I use to map / unmap the drive :
Code:
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Private Const RESOURCETYPE_ANY = &H0&
Private Const CONNECT_UPDATE_PROFILE = &H1&
Private Const RESOURCE_CONNECTED As Long = &H1&
[Code] .....
I have separate functions to check existing drive mappings on the local machine and thus determine an appropriate vacant letter to use for the temporary mapping - they work fine.
Unfortunately the UnMapDrive function returns False (even though I switch the active drive to C: and force the connection to be cancelled with the fForce flag) So the mapping always remains on the users profile.
I don't want to permanently map drives on the users' profiles, just briefly for the purposes of this daily file download.
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Is this to be expected? Any suggestions to speed things up for login? Or is this the downside to using UNC?
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As the thread title suggests, my problem is that I have a database that will not open via the mapped drive. There are other databases stored on this drive that open fine so it is only the one database that is causing me a headache.
Any suggestions as to why only this one database would be having this problem and any ideas on how to resolve it would be greatly appricated.
Thanks
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So I do map drive on this way and it is successful ...
Code:
Dim FSO As Object
Dim objFile As Object
Dim objFileS As Object
Dim WshNet As Object
persistent = false
set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "driveletter:", "serversharename", persistent, "username", "password"
But I need to have mapped drive hidden from the client users So I red that i might be possible if put $ after the share folder
Code:
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "driveletter:", "serversharename$", persistent, "username", "password
"
but it does not work.. the other way is to set values in win registry, but I don't like that way...
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