[thelist] Accessing remote data sources in CF

Bob - 

This isn't too uncommon a problem, so thats good :)

I assume your db box is on a differnt IP range, ie: 10.10.10.x and
you're webserver is on the net, 20.20.20.x

Just slap another NIC in the DB and plug that into the hub or switch the
DB server is on. Give the internal NIC an IP addy in the 10.10.10.x
range and allow only connections between the two IP address. This is
where you'll config you're firewall, whatever you have.

Sound like a plan? Yell if you need me to expropilate ;)

.djc.

Bob Davis wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I ran into a new problem today, and was hoping someone may have an answer
> for me.
> 
> Let me preface this by saying that I spent the day looking through
> documentation and Allaire support forums for this, and couldn't find it.
> 
> What I need to (want to) do is access a database that lives on a machine
> behind our firewall from the web server that lives outside it.  I am trying
> to set this Access database up as a datasource in CF, and it's failing.