>Hi all,
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>Presently I've installed the EXE in all my clients PC and the DATA in the server. Can I just give read and write permissions to the user on the sever DATA directory only but not add or delete files? If I issue Reindex and Pack, in FPD 2.6 needs to create a working file in the server to do the PACKING and is this the same for VFP? If so, then my permissions above would fails, right? Please advice.
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>When user login into the NOVELL server, can I prevent the users from accessing EXPLORER?
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>Thanks.

Minimum rights the users would need are Read, Filescan, Write, Modify. The Create right is not bad, especially if they do not have Erase rights. That configuration prevents them from overwriting existing files, but still lets them create new files. However, you must provide a directory for FoxPro's temporary files that has read, write, erase, filescan, create, modify rights. I usually keep this as a separate directory because manual clean-up of left-over temp files is easy (del *.*). The location of where you want FP to place its temporary files is placed in the CONFIG.FP(W) file.

TMPFILES=C:\TEMP

This should take care of what VFP needs. When you ask about preventing users from accessing EXPLORER, are you referring to the Win95 Explorer? If so, why would you want to prevent them from using this tool? Were you looking to letting them go back to using the File Manager from Win 3.1 as an alternative?