>Hi All
>I am running a application on a network. In this folder is located my data directory with consists of the database and the table associated with it.
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>What I am trying to do is to implement some security features .ie. at the moment there is nothing stopping users from copying tabes out of this directory, running a copy of V Foxpro and opening the tables.
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>Is there a way that I can stop this...??
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>Reagrds
>Mark

I would approach this from a couple of different ways:

First, I would consider how realistic is the threat that someone will misuse the data. It may be that it's not likely, or maybe it's a real possibility.

Second, I would recommend only those users that need access to the network folder be given permissions (read/write/change, etc) to that folder.

Third, if you're still concerned about users copying the data and viewing it, you might look into some type of encryption software. (We use Cipher, but it is best used to encrypt fields, rather than an entire table at a time.) I'm sure there are other third-party encryption tools that would be worthwile to look at.

HTH,