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How to link a sharepoint site forms to a custome relational database to enter and search

Tags: access, database, mdb, relational, sharepoint
GOt a good question here, hopefully someone else out there has a direction or advice.

We are a local IT support company and we have been looking for a good customer service management program.  We happened along Sharepoint services 3.0 and have liked the web interbfaces and integration.  We use it for customer followups and other forms we need to complete (hardware repair etc.) We want to tie this to a database form (something we can control a littled better) so we created the forms in Access and created the relations as we would like them so we can put in our customers, history, equipment, service requests etc.  Now has been the hard part of trying to tie in the Sharepoint site to the different fields in the databases (and relational components).  

If this is too vague, let me know what else to fill in here, but has anyone had success using sharepoint tied into a custom relational database, basically using the Sharepoint site for the form view and entry and MDB or SQL on the back end?  We cannot seem to get it to connect.  
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