i think you can map a remote DSN using UNC to get to the remote machine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ibtoad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 8:23 AM
Subject: RE: External Datasource help??
> I spoke to soon, I don't got it. Can I query a database from a different
> server if I have the datasource name and the full server root?
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ibtoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:16 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: External Datasource help??
>
>
> Forget it, I got it thanks
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ibtoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:13 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: External Datasource help??
>
>
> I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?
>
> Thanks again,
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warrick, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:06 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: External Datasource help??
>
>
> Set it up as an ODBC datasource on the server from which you are making
> requests and run a query against it.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ibtoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 8:05 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: External Datasource help??
> >
> >
> > How can I query an external datasource? I have the full root path and
the
> > datasource name, is this even possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rich
> >
> >
> >
>
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