ADT2: Installing ADT Application on Workstation Causes Error
ID: Q128766
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit, version 2.0
SYMPTOMS
Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.
When you install a custom application created with the Microsoft Access
Developer's Toolkit (ADT) on a workstation, you may receive the following
error message:
An error has occurred at changing workgroup database.
CAUSE
Another user is using the system database (SYSTEM.MDA) for the custom
application.
Each time the custom application is set up on a workstation, the Setup
program tries to create the shared system database on the network server.
If one user is running the application and a second user tries to install
it, Setup cannot recreate the SYSTEM.MDA file, and the second user receives
the error message.
STATUS
This behavior no longer occurs in Microsoft Access for Windows 95
version 7.0.
RESOLUTION
You can prevent Setup from creating the SYSTEM.MDA file after the first
workstation installation is completed by modifying the SETUP.STF file on
the network server as follows:
- Make a backup copy of the SETUP.STF file located in the shared
directory of the administrator's installation on the network server,
and name the backup copy SETUPSTF.BAK.
- Open the SETUP.STF file on the network server using an application
(such as Microsoft Excel) that supports a delimited-text file format.
- In first column of the SETUP.STF file, scroll down to the row that
contains ObjID. Note that the ObjID row contains column headings. Three
of these column headings (ObjID [column 1], Title [column 3], and
Object Data [column 6]) are referenced in steps 4 through 10.
- In the ObjID row, go to the Title column (column 3).
- In the Title column, scroll down to the row that contains "Create
SYSTEM.MDA." This row is usually located near the bottom of the
SETUP.STF file.
- In the Create SYSTEM.MDA row, go to the ObjID column (column 1), and
write down the ObjID value.
- Go to the Title column (column 3), and scroll to the row that contains
"User Non File Work."
- In the User Non File Work row, go to the Object Data column (column
6), and delete the ObjID value that you wrote down in step 6.
- Go to the Title column (column 3), and scroll up to the row that
contains "&Complete." This row is usually located near the top of the
SETUP.STF file.
- In the &Complete row, go to Object Data column (column 6), and add the
ObjID value that you wrote down in step 6.
- Save the SETUP.STF file as a delimited-text file.
REFERENCES
For more information about modifying the SETUP.STF file for multiuser
applications, see the topic "Setting Up Shared Applications on a Network"
in the README.TXT file located in the Microsoft Access\ADT subdirectory.
For more information about installing Microsoft Access to a network server,
see the topic "Network Installation" in the ACREADME.HLP file.
Additional query words:
Keywords : kberrmsg kbsetup StpNet
Version : WINDOWS:2.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb