> Hmmm, yes you are right, but what if you local machine goes down while an
> update is occurring, would you say the same consequence would occur? I am
> getting the impression from the responses that this limitation is
> by design
> because it is the feeling that this type of setup is considered [possibly]
> unstable. I am in the position of having to explain to the company I'm
> dealing with why they cannot have this type of access to the DB file. What
> has been requested is the same type of access to the DB file that
> the server
> version gives, but use the embedded version (because of it's simplicity in
> installation).
>
>

You want multiple clients to access a file across a network node. How would
you think these multple write instructions would be negotiated/brokered?
Alan