As far as I know, this is not supported at all. It sounds like you're
trying to store an access database file (like an .mdb) in a document
library. By default, almost all, if not completely all, of the
extensions used by Access are blocked anyway, so if you ARE using an
Access file in a document library, I assume you've removed the blocks.
To see the list of blocked extensions, take a look at
http://portal/_vti_bin/help/1033/sps/html/stse12.htm (if you have SPS).
Not sure what the helpfile url is in WSS basic, but I digress.
To me, storing an Access database in a document library is like OLE
embedding a .txt Notepad file inside of Microsoft Word. Sharepoint
already *is* a database, and all the files in a document library are in
that database. You're storing a database file as an element in a
database. I would like you'd probably want to do one of the following
instead:
* Use SQL Server instead of a datafile and then just access
those tables instead of the file.
* Use sharepoint instead of a file (you should be able to import
your access tables into sharepoint as a list, depending on how complex
your data is)
To my knowledge, Access files are not client-server-aware. That's why
you'll want to use a database for your data and use access as the
client-only mechanism.