NAV 4 shortcut to access local database

jjwolven

We have just recently finished updating from 4.02 to 2009, but still have a few people who will infrequently need access to the old database. The service for 4.0 has been turned off, and the database relocated to a network drive as an FDB so it can be access in single user mode.

I am trying to setup a shortcut to simplify the process for those accessing it as much as possible, but have not been able to get it to work properly. I setup the shortcut as shown below, but it will only open Navision and will not go to the database or company.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision\Client\" database=\\gamma\share\IT\OLD-NAV\40NAV.fdb, company="Sales Force"

Is there a way to get this to work with direct network addressing, or do I need to map a drive letter to it?

-jj

vaprog

If the values are correct, this should work, the parameter are correct and sufficient to access a database/company. I strongly recommend, however, to use a separate zup file. So add ,ID=403 or something like that to the parameter list.
Moreover, in your command you referred to the folder of the client executable but not to the executable itself. So add fin.exe there (an error, I am certain, you made in this post only, not in your shortcut).
Try the command it from a command line window first, so you can see any error messages displayed there.