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Access on 2 computers

Can you use the same microsoft access database on two computers in two different location? Ie: each person at their own house?
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Have both users access the same database?  Or have the two databases synchronized?
What are you trying to do?
Technically, yes. But not readily, as in not out of the box. You may look into a hosted SharePoint site.
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...or investigate:
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Citrix
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Building a web front end for this, and store the Back end on a SQL server variant.

But as Jerry asks, you need to tell us more about your exact goals here.

For two "remote" users to access the same database, they must have a Front end interface (Web Database/Form, Sharepoint,.ect) that looks at a shared back end file.

The other technologies just access the DB remotely.

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...Agree with Gustav.

Perhaps you should take a moment to describe exactly what you have, ...and exactly what your ultimate need is here...
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It is a small service business, in which access controls all the invoices, client info and memos. I need to expand and hire an assistant to aid in the process who would work from her home office. The assistant would work remotely and would need access to the same access database. Both of us would add clients, invoices, change invoices etc. It would be very rare that we would work on the same customer invoice at identical times.

Is that more clarity? From what I am concluding I can host the tables on a computer in my home office and then have her computer access those backend tables through her front end forms and queries? I can do this through Remote Desktop or LogMeIn?

Or is an SQL server what I should investigate?

Does that make more sense? Thanks for the help!
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