Two users cannot open the mdb file at the same time

  • Hi,

    I have experienced the following issue:

    Multiple users cannot open a .mdb file from shared drive at one time. We have situation if one user has alrealreadyned by double clicking this .mdb file, another user cannot open the same .mdb file by

    double clicking this file and don't receive any error messamessageease suggest me how to resolve this issue.

    Regards,

    Ganesh

  • If the first user opens any form, report, macro or code, the database is locked exclusively to that user - from Access 2000 forward. Also in Access 2007 forward there is an option to open a database exclusively, and that can be set as the default for a user. Check those two possibilities out - for that reason, we usually give each user their own local copy of the queries, forms and reports in a split database structure where only the tables are in the shared database.

    Wendell
    Colorful Colorado
    You can't see the view if you don't climb the mountain!

  • Also verify that the user have read/write permissions. If they don't have write permissions, the lck file can't be created->exclusive mode

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