Opening an MS Access Database

I have an app that attempts to "launch" MS Access and open a
database. MS Access is starting up successfully, but the user is
presented, by MS Access a message that reads "You do not have
exclusive access to the database at this time. If you proceed to
make changes, you may not be able to save them later." - I am using
cflocation to launch ms access with the selected database file.
What might I be doing to cause this message to appear and what is
the best way to open a database launch the ms access application
through my cf app. I have verified the obvious that another user
might have the file open at the time we attempt to access the
database, and we are the only process accessing the file at that
time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Craig

yikes.
yes, this does help. but, first of all, this is probably a
bad time to be building these types of apps. 5 years ago, it would
have been fine, but, between IE 7 and future browsers, you will
probably begin to run into security issues. plus, depending on how
network security is in this domain, priviledges would need to be
set up in order to let the web server access this file system. in
which case gives any user that access the app the access to this
file system. but, only to view and print. any saving would have to
be done on the local machine unless the user has access to the file
dir in which case would have to navigate back to it. also, i hope
it isnt exposed to the www which would be an easy target for
hackers to destroy/steal that stuff.
now, if the user already has access to this file system, why
not just use a link like \\myserver\share which would open the file
system up? or make the link \\myserver\share\thedatabase.mdb

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