>>>>PS: I understand that removing floppy drives from PCs is an option :-).
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>>>Well, this is sure the safest way to do it!
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>>>In WinNT, the floppy drive(s) can be hidden for specific users. But I don't know how to do it (while I'm also interested). Probably Ed Rauh can give more info. Try also www.ntfaq.com
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>>It's pretty easy - just limit write permissions to removable media on a user by user basis using the user manager and the properties sheet for the device.
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>But it does not prevent from copying the files through the network to another workstation and use it to copy onto floppy when another user is gone to the bathroom... :)

If you noticed, I said that in another message; not only that, but if you can copy it to the local drive and can get out of NT to DOS or Win9x, if you've got a FAT partition, the file can be read and the floppy won't be protected IAC.

We're dealing with several different security issues here - the operating system enforced security of NT can help make life more difficult for the would-be theif, but bypassing NT, or getting a privileged userid and password, or going to another station that isn't secured adequately, and your data has been stolen. If the user can get to the raw file and write to removable media, you're out of luck.

It's actually worse than that - a system that can pose queries against tables and write them out, even if not into a .DBF, is a way of getting around the security, too.