I am the administrator of the database, I am in the Admins Group with no
permissions for the Users group. When I try to open the backend or the
frontend in exclusive mode, it is set for Shared Access for the database. My
log-in pops up, I enter my password and click OK, it comes back with " can't
open database in exclusinve mode because a user is logged in or I don't have
exclusive rights. I am stumped, no one is in the database, either in the
front end or the backend. Any Ideas.
Kevin Jameson - 19 Sep 2006 15:07 GMT
you cant do this with microsoft access 2003
you must upgrade to access 20004 by clicking here:
http://www.ammara.com/access_image_faq/access_loading_image_dialog.html
HTH
Kevin
>I am the administrator of the database, I am in the Admins Group with no
> permissions for the Users group. When I try to open the backend or the
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> exclusive rights. I am stumped, no one is in the database, either in the
> front end or the backend. Any Ideas.
Joan Wild - 19 Sep 2006 15:14 GMT
When the database is closed, and no one else is in it, open Windows Explorer
and see if there is a ldb file in the same folder as the mdb. If you see
it, delete it. Try opening the mdb again.

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> I am the administrator of the database, I am in the Admins Group with
> no permissions for the Users group. When I try to open the backend or
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> one is in the database, either in the front end or the backend. Any
> Ideas.
Clois Beckwith - 19 Sep 2006 16:12 GMT
There is NOT an Ldb in the server location where the frontend and backend are
located.
> When the database is closed, and no one else is in it, open Windows Explorer
> and see if there is a ldb file in the same folder as the mdb. If you see
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> > one is in the database, either in the front end or the backend. Any
> > Ideas.
Joan Wild - 19 Sep 2006 16:33 GMT
What is the text of the message you get?

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> There is NOT an Ldb in the server location where the frontend and
> backend are located.
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>>> I am stumped, no one is in the database, either in the front end or
>>> the backend. Any Ideas.
Clois Beckwith - 19 Sep 2006 17:56 GMT
can't open database in exclusinve mode because a user is logged in or I
don't have exclusive rights.
> What is the text of the message you get?
>
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> >>> I am stumped, no one is in the database, either in the front end or
> >>> the backend. Any Ideas.
Joan Wild - 19 Sep 2006 21:35 GMT
I have not heard of a message with that particular text. If you are certain
that no one else has the database open, then I am unsure of what else it
could be.

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> can't open database in exclusinve mode because a user is logged in or
> I don't have exclusive rights.
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>>>>> exclusive rights. I am stumped, no one is in the database, either
>>>>> in the front end or the backend. Any Ideas.
Clois Beckwith - 27 Sep 2006 14:32 GMT
I am back to the LDB issue now, when I logged in and checked the LDB with
Office 97 file LDB.exe it is NOT seeing the machine that is logged into the
database. Any ideas?
> I have not heard of a message with that particular text. If you are certain
> that no one else has the database open, then I am unsure of what else it
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> >>>>> exclusive rights. I am stumped, no one is in the database, either
> >>>>> in the front end or the backend. Any Ideas.
Joan Wild - 27 Sep 2006 18:24 GMT
What is LDB.exe? I've never heard of that.
When you log in, open Windows Explorer and go to the folder where the mdb is
located. You should see a file with the same name as the mdb, but a ldb
extension. Do you?

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> I am back to the LDB issue now, when I logged in and checked the LDB
> with Office 97 file LDB.exe it is NOT seeing the machine that is
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>>>>>>> exclusive rights. I am stumped, no one is in the database,
>>>>>>> either in the front end or the backend. Any Ideas.
Clois Beckwith - 27 Sep 2006 18:42 GMT
It is there, but when I use the Office97 - LDB.exe file that came under
Office97, it does not see the users that are on-line with the database open
> What is LDB.exe? I've never heard of that.
>
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> >>>>>>> exclusive rights. I am stumped, no one is in the database,
> >>>>>>> either in the front end or the backend. Any Ideas.
Joan Wild - 28 Sep 2006 17:06 GMT
Is this a single mdb or a split one?
If it's split, opening the frontend isn't necessarily enough to open the
backend; open a linked table.
You can also open the ldb in notepad to see who has it open; note that it'll
show any user that has had it open since the ldb was first created - they
may have logged out, but the ldb will still show them.
(never heard of ldb.exe)

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> It is there, but when I use the Office97 - LDB.exe file that came
> under Office97, it does not see the users that are on-line with the
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>>>>>>>>> the database, either in the front end or the backend. Any
>>>>>>>>> Ideas.