On a side note, putting it in the cgi-bin will not make it any more secure or less public.

I have not done much work with Access Databases or database work on Linux, but I have worked with Oracle on Dynix. Working from the Unix server that the database is hosted on is no problem, but Access is another ball of wax. Here is a good link that covers access databases.

I would think that it work fairly the same between Linux and Windows.

Sparky
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