>You have several approaches; none of them are entirely satisfactory. You can encrypt the content of the table and/or field, so that the field is viewable, but the content of the field is not intelligible without the appropriate decryption routine. There are both commercial and public domain encryption routines that can be called from VFP; at least one, CRYPT.FLL, can be downloaded from UT I think.
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There are also libraries that allow you to get authorization from an NT security provider... so, basically, you would send the entered username and password to the NT Security Provider and it would return to you whether this is an accurate pair.

This is how Win95 works when you use User Level security on your shares.

I also assume this can be done with the Win32APi, but I know not how... it may be worth the money to buy a library from Net Horizons or some such company.

BOb