Accessing an ODBC data source located in someone else's directory space

The following discussion assumes that all computers and files are located in the CS labs.

• Suppose we want a C++ program running in your account to access a data source located in my account.
• Assume the data source is called MartinDB.mdb and is located in the root folder of my osbornm account.
• I need to set permissions on this file to that you can change it. Or if I want to be less security conscious, I can set permissions so that IUSR can change it.
• When you want to access this file, you would refer to it as:

\\pinky\users$\osbornm\MartinDB.mdb

• If you were working from inside VC++, your connection string would look like this:

      "ODBC;DSN=MS Access Database;" + 
      "DBQ=\\\\pinky\\users$\\osbornm\\MartinDB.mdb;" +
      "DefaultDir=\\\\pinky\\users$\\osbornm"

Remember that in a C++ string it takes a double slash to get a single one.