...Untrusted Site?????

[EJRuiz]

Hi folks, I'm not sure that this is the correct place to post this but being an Access developer, and having posted here in the past and ALWAYS gotten great advice, I'm gonna post this here and hope against hope that some guru has encountered this before.

I have a database that resides in a shared folder on the company's intranet. A shared folder that I have read, write, edit, delete, etc. permissions in. Since I reinstalled Access 2002 (the same copy of Access 2002 that I've always used) two days ago I can't open my database file. Each time I try I get a message stating that the database file I'm trying to open is outside of my intranet or on an untrusted site.

I've done some research on Microsoft's website but the only time they discuss this error is when you're attempting to open the file through Internet Explorer or by using an IP address. I'm simply browsing out to it in Windows Explorer.

Also the users of the database, who use runtime, can access the database without any trouble. But if I install the full version of Access on their machine I get the same error there.

Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? Absolutely nothing has changed other than I had to reinstall Access on my machine and now I can't open the database.

Thanks in advance for even reading this long post!!

enrique

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Have you patched your machine lately? I mean by going to a Windows Update site and downloading some security patches?

Whenever you re-install a product, you need to also update your O/S security because you have overlaid some .DLL files in all probability. My first guess is to patch your system.

 

[EJRuiz]

Thanks for the advice Doc-Man I'll give it a shot.

 

[Dugantrain]

Funny, I almost went berserk having to deal with this same issue about a week ago. We migrated all of my database back-ends from our normal Shared Drive to a Shared Web Drive. Here was my fix:
-Go into Explorer
-Go to Tools->Internet Options->Security->Trusted Sites->Sites
-Add the name of the Server that the database is sitting on
-Unclick the 'Require Server Verification' Check-Box

It doesn't sound like your database is sitting on a Web Server, but it's worth a shot.

 

[EJRuiz]

That's it!! Incredible, thanks a lot! I was hoping someone had encountered this before. I work for a large company with a pretty strong help-desk team but they were just as stumped as me. I'm gonna share this with them right now.

Thanks again,
enrique