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Score Lost MDW File
Dan Owbridge - 16 Apr 2005 1:50 PM - 2 messages
I have a database for which I lost the MDW file and now cannot modify things at an Administrator level i.e Setting HyperlinkBase How can I get control back of my database which now has it's owner as unknown? ...
Score Is Add User Limited to Admins Group?
P. Fogg - 16 Apr 2005 2:01 AM - 16 messages
Can someone point me to a resource that diffinatively states whether the ability to create users and groups is limited to the Admins Group and that the permission to do so can not be assigned to another group? I created a new group and assigned Administrate permissions (and all the ...
Score user PID's
RipperT - 15 Apr 2005 8:44 PM - 5 messages
Hello, My secured DB is going to have some 200 users. Does the PID for each and every user need to be recorded/remembered? Thanx, Rip ...
Score Read Only Table
CP - 15 Apr 2005 6:25 PM - 2 messages
Hi:  Is it possible to make a table read only when it is open? ...
Score I have a Windows XP Professional 2002 Version Disk question
agenttawnia - 15 Apr 2005 5:45 PM - 2 messages
I have a Windows XP Professional 2002 Version Disk that I used on another computer that is no longer in use. I would like to download it onto my new computer. Is the key code being registred on that old computer going to cause ...
Score Re: WinXP SP2 Runtime error 70 permission denied on application
jack - 15 Apr 2005 4:03 AM - 2 messages
Dear Wired, I have a similar problem. My database is located on WinXP SP2 (it is fine on WInXP SP1). Error message shown is that the record can't be locked when my application run via lan even if I have the full permission. ...
Score Security Manager Add-In for Access 2003
Cory Hug - 15 Apr 2005 2:47 AM - 2 messages
Is there a Security Manager Add-in version for Access 2003, or will the one for Access XP work in Access 2003?  I've been using it with Access 2000 for a while and really like it, but we recently upgraded ...
Score Exclusive access
Kathy - 14 Apr 2005 8:52 PM - 4 messages
We do not use a SQL server.  Access files are stored on a Windows 2003 server. Users open databases in exclusive mode but in a multiuser environment. Here's our problem: If Sally opens the database "enrollment.mdb" she gest enrollment.mdb. ...
Score "Error changing owner of database"
Tom Glasser - 14 Apr 2005 5:06 PM - 7 messages
Hello, I am simply trying to test out Access user-level security.  I am following instructions in the SAMS Acess 2000 book for using the security wizard on an existing test database.  But every time I get to the end of the wizard, I get the ...
Score User-level security
ACI ITMGR - 14 Apr 2005 1:16 PM - 3 messages
I somehow corrupted my user-level security database, now it doesn't prompt for a password.  I simply tried to add a new user and after that it won't let me log back in.  Any ideas how to fix or re-confugure the user-security ...
Score :: Control user access
Retf - 14 Apr 2005 12:02 PM - 3 messages
Hi, I need develop a security application, and I would like know what is better way to control user access (authentication) in my application. Is better: Control in SQL Server. (SQL Logins) Control in Windows. (Windows Login) Control in table of user in my database. (My application control this) ...
Score Auto Backup
Carlos - 14 Apr 2005 1:08 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I'm not sure whether I posted this in the correct newsgroup. I have created an Excel file that has auto link (everytime to open) to a query of my existing database. The purpose of this Excel file is for some read-only users who are ...
Score Please confirm security limitations
Brad Wood - 13 Apr 2005 10:23 PM - 11 messages
I've been tasked with creating a small internal project (used by a dozen   users) that requires a back end database. I just upgraded to Access 2003, so I am experiencing the security limitations for the first time. I merely create a new database and then attempt to re-open it and I'm ...
Score i give up...please tell me how to remove security
nicolle - 13 Apr 2005 8:44 PM - 5 messages
Hello all, After struggling for a couple months with the user and group level security functions - I give up. It simply will not do what I want. The objective was to keep my database on a network drive so that users could log in and enter ...
Score samad najafi
SAMAD NAJAFI - 13 Apr 2005 8:17 PM - 8 messages
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Score Identify who updated field
Heidiho - 13 Apr 2005 6:54 PM - 5 messages
Is there a way to create a field which automatically updates and identifies the user who last updated a given field? ...
Score Split unsecured database
Rob P - 13 Apr 2005 6:14 PM - 2 messages
I have a split database with no security which is the best way to start securing eg Convert it back to unsplit then follow the 5 steps of Joan Secure the Front end or the back end first then? I cant seem to see the answer in the links etc ...
Score screwed up by access 2002 security update
jia - 13 Apr 2005 4:09 PM - 2 messages
When I creating a new workgroup by using the User-Level security wizard, in the end of it, it pops out a error message: 'An unexpected error occurred while creating the workgroup file.': The wizard can't complete successfully. Do any expert here ever met this message before. I have absolutely no idea ...
Score Users and Groups list empty
OmahaGeek - 13 Apr 2005 3:17 PM - 2 messages
Running Access 2000:  I am having problems opening any database file...from an old one that worked previously to a brand new database.  Whenever I open a database (new or old) and attempt to open a table, I get the message box with ...
Score Prompting for password
Mauricio Silva - 13 Apr 2005 3:09 PM - 5 messages
I have developed a form which connect to other database and list all the users connected to it. In most cases, I have to enter a password in order to do it. My question is: Is there an InputBox Masked? I mean, if I use InputBox to ask for a ...
Score How do I get back into a database as the administrator once I hav.
JTS - 13 Apr 2005 11:43 AM - 5 messages
How do I get back into a database as the administrator once I have given another user permission?  Right now I'm locked out and can't figure out a way to get back in. I would appreciate any help because as it looks right nowI'm going to have ...
Score Cant get in to my database
Andreas - 13 Apr 2005 9:20 AM - 2 messages
I was testing the sequriry funktions in accses, i put another user to it and starting a workgroup. Now i cant open my database, it says i dont have permisson to it. I didnt put in any passwords and so.. Please help im going ...
Score MS ACESS cannot open this file error (new uer)
Sever - 13 Apr 2005 12:13 AM - 7 messages
This file is located outside your intranet or on an untrusted site. Microsoft Access will not open the file due to potential security problems. ...
Score How do I remove user level security?
Andrew Gallimore - 12 Apr 2005 10:42 PM - 3 messages
I posted user level security on one database as a test and now all of my databases on my computer ask me for a sign in? ...
Score Splitting a secure database
tw - 12 Apr 2005 5:11 PM - 6 messages
My live database is currently not secure.  I have a copy of it that I have worked out all the security issues and I am ready to update the live data with the secure schema.  (I had to modify several forms, and queries so that ...
Score How do I change Access ownership from <unknown>?
Brutus - 12 Apr 2005 10:51 AM - 2 messages
I can not delete some old outdated files.  One reason is that the locked file (.ldb) was not deleted when the file was closed.  Another I believe is because the ownership for the database is shown as <unknown>.  This ownership ...
Score Application Property
Michael - 12 Apr 2005 8:21 AM - 3 messages
I have changed the settings within a database allowing it to be an application.  With this feature the entire database has become read-only, most of the features that allow you to develop the database and forms have disappeared.  ...
Score Restrict use of Access to one computer
Logi Bakels - 12 Apr 2005 5:46 AM - 9 messages
G'day everyone Is it possible to restrict a MS database so it can only run on a particular computer &/or system? I want to stop people from copying the database onto another system and using it there. Thanks ...
Score Security within tables
Alexis - 12 Apr 2005 3:01 AM - 2 messages
Can I set a different password for each table within a database? ...
Score RE: Urgent: Securing My Access from Piracy
Peggy - 11 Apr 2005 11:50 PM - 3 messages
Hello Baghzaad I have the same problem that you appear to have resolved.  Can you provide me with info on how to get the OS product key?  I have worked for a while trying to figure it out, so hope you can assist me. ...
Score I got a message with need to install MSDRMclient.msi and and arti.
Naturesgurl and roomate - 11 Apr 2005 5:54 PM - 2 messages
I am so tired of this computer messing up and having issues, after numerous visits from the computer home repair guy.  HAve no isea what this need to download this is.  I cannot click anywhere for hours to find out why all this ...
Score Preventing linked tables
Bryan - 11 Apr 2005 1:18 PM - 3 messages
Well, I thought I had my security pretty well set.  I had everything unchecked in startup, limited users accounts and disabled the shift key.  However, after I left on Friday, someone apparently needed to look at my tables, because they did something I had not thought of; they created a new ...
Score Removing Security
Jeff M - 11 Apr 2005 12:58 PM - 5 messages
I have many Access databases that I have created for personal use, and I recently created one for users to input weekly info and print reports.  I created a workgroup along with passwords to limit access, but now I ...
Score File rights
RipperT - 11 Apr 2005 8:53 AM - 4 messages
I keep reading that I am supposed to give users full network rights to the backend of the database. If this is true, what's to keep someone from deleting it? Rip ...
Score DB Splitter err
DL - 10 Apr 2005 10:05 AM - 6 messages
Access2K, updated ,Win2k sp4 I have a smallish db, 26mb approx, not currently networked and was thinking of splitting. However when doing so I receive the following errs; 'Subscript out of range' followed by, ''Invalid procedure call or argument' The back end db is created but not front end. ...
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