Imitate a server on a standalone PC

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Tom

Im not sure if this is the area to ask this or not, but
here goes. I am trying to get more work done at home, but
I cant seem to "imitate" my server location on my home PC.
At the office the location of my backend tables by calling
it out using the server location. I then have to bring the
databases home and have to re-set the links to the
location at home. Then I take the databases back to work
and have to redo these links to point back to the server
location. Is there a way to "simulate" a server location
on my home PC. My office network addministrator will not
let me remap the address to a drive.
 
Hi Tom,

In principle I think you can do this by installing emulator software
such as VPC on your computer, and using that to run a second instance of
Windows as a virtual machine with the appropriate name and shared
folders.

In practice I suggest you modify your front end to make it easy to link
to different back ends. There's code for relinking tables at
http://www.mvps.org/access among other places, as well as in Access
textbooks such as the Access xxx Developers Handbook (xxx being your
version).
 
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