smithles
Programmer
- Jul 15, 2002
- 18
Hi. Thankyou for looking and hopefully thinking.
I have a vb4 application which runs many locations but needs upgrading.
In vb6 I get error 3028 "can't start yr app. workgroup information file is missing or is in use by another user"
at the Set ABCWorkSpace = DBEngine.CreateWorkspace("ABC",flogin,fpass,dBUseJet). The dbUseJet was recommended for vb6 but seems to have no useful effect.
The database files were created in Access 2.0 and need the password protection for distribution. There is no available SYSTEM.MDW file for them. Adding a statement DBEngine.SystemDB = ...path to SYSTEM.MDW ( the one for access 2000 which I am trying to get around the 3028 problem) just gives an error 3049 corrupt database which is probably due to not telling system.mdw about the database as we don't know the setup parameters apart from username /password. This long ago ceased to be an interesting problem. Microsoft says remove the password protection and upgrade the database to Access 2000 or later.
But this distributed (>1gig) database needs protection from pirates. It will be difficult but probably not impossible to remove password protection temporarily. All I am trying to do is to open a file, after all.
Thanx. Les
I have a vb4 application which runs many locations but needs upgrading.
In vb6 I get error 3028 "can't start yr app. workgroup information file is missing or is in use by another user"
at the Set ABCWorkSpace = DBEngine.CreateWorkspace("ABC",flogin,fpass,dBUseJet). The dbUseJet was recommended for vb6 but seems to have no useful effect.
The database files were created in Access 2.0 and need the password protection for distribution. There is no available SYSTEM.MDW file for them. Adding a statement DBEngine.SystemDB = ...path to SYSTEM.MDW ( the one for access 2000 which I am trying to get around the 3028 problem) just gives an error 3049 corrupt database which is probably due to not telling system.mdw about the database as we don't know the setup parameters apart from username /password. This long ago ceased to be an interesting problem. Microsoft says remove the password protection and upgrade the database to Access 2000 or later.
But this distributed (>1gig) database needs protection from pirates. It will be difficult but probably not impossible to remove password protection temporarily. All I am trying to do is to open a file, after all.
Thanx. Les
