>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>So the customers would access their data directly on the accountants server? No local data copy?
>>>Regards,
>>>Viv
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>>I'm a customer and I have my local mdf file which I access with the native drivers
>
>As already stated you will need SQLServer installed to do that. The native client is used to access the server. IAC, if you are using .NET you should use the build-in SQL dataprovider not native client.
>

Ok, thanks, I'll check that out - may have mixed terminology

What I meant :

Accountant uses sql server 'service'
Customer accesses the database directly through 'a driver that works directly on the file'

IAC, cut me some slack, my investigation has only begun