Microsoft KB Archive/90851

= ACC: Network Users Can Open Their Own SYSTEM.MDW Exclusively =

Article ID: 90851

Article Last Modified on 1/18/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 1.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q90851





SUMMARY
Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

Two users on the same network can open the same System.mdw file in Microsoft Access 97 and 7.0 (SYSTEM.MDA file in 1.x and 2.0) exclusively. Microsoft Access ignores the exclusive lock on a System.mdw file in a multiuser installation.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft Access opens the system database nonexclusively on the network. Subsequent requests to open the database ignore the read-only and exclusive flags.

Because the System.mdw file is opened whenever a user logs on to the database, opening the System.mdw file exclusively would lock out all other users on the network.

Additional query words: jet system mdw mda

Keywords: kbenv kbinfo KB90851

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