> I used to have a user level secuirty on the DB, and I think because I copied
> it the user level secuirty is not working anymore. That's fine with me. I
> don't need it anymore. When I copy the database from one computer to another
> or to a laptop also it works, but when I upload the database to a server for
> some people when need to work on it doesn't let them open the database. I
> don't know the exact error message that they get but I guess it talks about
> administration privileges. I wanna know what the heck is going on

"Joan Wild" wrote:

> Copying a mdb file does not remove security.  Since the copy appears to
> have no security, then your original was not secured properly.
>
> However, since it doesn't matter to you, on to your other problem.  All
> users of the file need create permission (Windows permission) on the
> folder where the mdb file is located.  However you should split the mdb;
> only the backend would sit on the server; each user would get a copy of
> the frontend on their PC.
>
> More info on splitting:
>   http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/Articles/split/index.htm
>   http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/splitapp/overview.htm
>
>
> Joan Wild
> MS Access MVP
>
>
> Majed wrote:
> > I used to have a user level secuirty on the DB, and I think because I copied
> > it the user level secuirty is not working anymore. That's fine with me. I
> > don't need it anymore. When I copy the database from one computer to another
> > or to a laptop also it works, but when I upload the database to a server for
> > some people when need to work on it doesn't let them open the database. I
> > don't know the exact error message that they get but I guess it talks about
> > administration privileges. I wanna know what the heck is going on
>