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   Newsgroup subject: Problems connecting to shared dbase from Vista Home Basic machine.
   Archived from: microsoft.public.outlook.bcm
   Author: misschrisp

   Have Business Contact Manager on 3 machines. Sharing database from BCM on XP media center machine. 2nd machine (XP home) can connect but 3rd (Vista home) machine can't. Help says that you can't share from a Vista Home machine or an XP home machine. Since the XP home machine can connect, I thought the Vista home probably would too. Have the dbase shared with the right names and passwords as far as I can tell but get this message when I try to connect. "Cannot find any Business Contact Manager databases on computer (name). For more information about possible causes, click Help. I've tried to connect with all firewalls off and disabled virus programs but no luck. Is the Vista Home machine looking in the right place? There's no option to browse to the file location when connecting... Is there another way?

   Any ideas?

   Thanks

   Posted 1 month ago #

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   Newsgroup subject: re: Problems connecting to shared dbase from Vista Home Basic machine.
   Archived from: microsoft.public.outlook.bcm
   Author: Luther

   There are a bunch of settings that would reproduce what you are seeing. Generally Windows Home default settings favor most home users (e.g. run games) and Windows Pro favor business users (e.g. connect applications to database servers). The different settings have been covered in this newsgroup over the years, so searching earlier posts may help.

   In these situations I favor taking BCM out of the picture and trying to connect your client machine to the server database directly using sql software like Management Studio or sqlcmd.exe. BCM's database connection UI makes it easier for BCM users when everything's aligned, but Sql's tools will have better diagnostics when things don't work.

   Posted 1 month ago #

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