IIRC, Access doesn't support network connenctions so you need some sort of bridging mechanism, be it a DBD::Proxy / DBI::ProxyServer combo (both part of DBI), or a commercial solution like Easysoft's ODBC-ODBC Bridge.

I can't speak for the latter, but the DBD::Proxy solution does work after a fashion, although the problem I hit (only get a single concurrent connection thanks to the way Net::Daemon worked on Win32) was pretty much a show stopper for my purposes.

    --k.