At 11/10/2002 03:04 AM, you wrote:

>I have an application running at office A.
>
>I want to access data stored in a FB database at office B.
>
>I was told that it is possible, provided that both offices have ADSL.
>
>I don't know much of this technology.
>
>Do you receive a fixed IP address with ADSL ?

Usually with ADSL you do get a fixed address(still possible to have
dynamic), but it's not necessarily an external address. Just to explain, I
have an ADSL connection, but the static address that I have starts with 10
and that range of addresses are private IPs. So, in other words, I have a
static private IP and connect through a gateway to get outside of my ISP's
network and sometimes that IP can be dynamic. If you find that the IP
addresses are dynamic, then you could probably look into DNS2Go, which is a
service offered for a fee that helps you have a static address, even though
your ISP's address is dynamic.

> From office A, should I just try to access
>
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/localpath/databasename.gdb ?

If you know that the IP address will never change, then yes.


Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.accramed.ca)