>Hi
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>I've been asked by my customer to add the facility to allow another machine to access their application in the same office, and allow the user to edit certain details in a table.
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>However, the user will be quite computer literate and they are concerned that he will be able to access/copy the DBFs and take them away with him.
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>How can I make the data only accesable via the software?
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>I seem to remember there was a trick you could with the database container to stop the dbfs from being opened without 1st correctly opening the database?

Don't know of anything along those lines that someone who is Foxpro literate couldn't circumvent. There are two options worth exploring - (a) encrypting the database (b) restricting access to the windows data folder and impersonating a valid user in the VFP app.

HTH,
Viv