Access, Remotely connecting

[Black_Knight]

Hi, I have an ASP site with an Access database.
Would it be possible to connect to this database remotely in, say, a Java program (running on a desktop, not a server). Or do you have to be connecting using ASP?
Thanks

[russell_g_1]

to be secure you would not want to expose the database directly on your website. if you did you would be very vulnerable to hacking.

the other way to do it is to expose certain functionality through web services. this would let you control access using usernames/passwords (at the least) and would restrict the number of commands that could be run, so there's little chance a hacker could do "delete from mytable" for example.