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BillMoody

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I am looking for a way to centralize MS Access data so that sales staff located in different regions can use an Access front end that resides on their machine, linkled to a shared back end hosted on Pogo or some other cloud.

Given that Pogo is "essentially a mapped network drive" this functionality would appear to be available with Pogo. Is this correct? And if so, is connectivity stability and the potential for corrupt tables enough of a concern that I should explore another option like Sharepoint?

Anyone out there doing this? Tech support have any experience with this? 

Thanks!

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December 28, 2010 6:12 PM

Hello,

This sounds like you plan on having multiple users changing data in the same file. Please note that Pogoplug currently has no file-locking for MSOffice files, so more than one person can have a file open not knowing someone else is doing the same. This tends to result in corruption if both people are making changes to it at the same time.

Multiple people looking at the file as read-only however, is okay.

Thanks,

The only limit to the Pogoplug is your imagination... and C skills... and linux skills. ^_^ h\t\tp://download.pogoplug.com/opensource/pogoplug-gcc.tar.bz2

December 28, 2010 11:34 PM

The database it written for multiple users, separate front end and shared master data files on the back end. So, as long as the back end on Pogo functions as it would on any other network drive the multiple user scenario should be fine. I assume that it will function the same... ???

December 29, 2010 8:47 AM

Ah, I see.

If there is a front-end managing all this, not just everyone opening the file directly with MSAccess, then it should work okay.

The only limit to the Pogoplug is your imagination... and C skills... and linux skills. ^_^ h\t\tp://download.pogoplug.com/opensource/pogoplug-gcc.tar.bz2

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