I was wondering if you could help, this is for my A-Level
in ICT.
I have to create a database in which students details,
and course grades are stored. The database is required to

Hi MichKa, Cheval
It now seems the client is to have a vpn connecting pcs and laptops.
Would you therefore recommend indirect synchronisation, and are there
any gotchas?

Some time between last night and this morning the Design Master became
corrupted. When someone tried to replicate they received "Not a recognized
file format.". When I tried to open it I received the same error and it
asked me if I wanted to recover, so I did. Now it's no longer a ...

Firstly, thanks for the help so far from Michka and Cheval.
I have six modem pc/laptop users, four on a network, two are not.
Indirect Synchronisation: Is it possible to set the users up with some
sort of network account so when they dial into my server they can be

I have created a small Access DB that very nicely handles
the synchronization of a Design Master with 1 replica.
It's all done in DAO, using form timer. As long as the
file is opened on the day planned for synchronization (by

I'm trying to make a scheduled backup of  an Access database in a second
server using the Replication facility.
The situation we have is, in  one hand, one server with an Access database,
and in the other, some terminals working with it through Terminal Server (I

In a 3 machine environment, we have one XP machine with
Access 2003 and the Design master.  We have a second
machine - Windows 2000 and Access 2000, where we store a
recently created replica and a third machine - XP and

I had to completly re-make a replica due to errors that could not be
resolved.  I created a new database and imported all tables into a new
database which was a non-replicated database.  All seemed fine as all
records were there.  Then I created the replicas (DM and replica) from ...

Every time I try save data into a memo field in a replicated access 2000 database, I get the following error. "unhandled Win32 exception has occurred in MSACCESS.EXE
The database then displays the "Microsoft Access has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for ...

Background info: In case you haven't read our continued
problems with Access 2003, Replication and the "Search Key
Not Found" error; here is a summary below.
We have a Design Master and Hub Backend on the server.

Is there any way synchronisation can be performed between two pcs
based at different office sites and not connected in any way except a
weekly dial-up using a product such as PC Anywhere or DameWare?
Any advice would be gratefully received.

Is it ok to store both replicated and non-replicated tables in the backend
data database?  All tables are linked to the front-end application.  Thanks.
David

We have 5 laptops that will be doing direct synchs with the network over a
wireless 11MB connection.  I tried creating a replica directly to one of
them and it took forever.  However, I can create a replica on the network
pretty quickly.  So, is it ok to create the laptop replicas ...

I'd like to manage two replicas with the same Replication
Manager, but it seems the Synchronization Window is not
able to differentiate between two replicas that are
managed with the same Manager - it is only possible to

One of my customers has a design master on one of his PCs and a replica
on his notebook. Due to changes in his network this replication set is
broken. If he wants to synchronize from his notebook he gets the error
message "the database is not a design master". So the replica does ...