Hi,

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We currently have a Novell file server. In order for our users to be able to run our software (and in turn view and edit our tables on Novell) we have had to give our users read/write permissions on our tables.

However, this also enables any user to simply open any of our tables using Access or Excel.

We're just now beginning to look into alternatives. Migrating to a SQL Server backend would be a HUGE undertaking for us at this point in time. Are there smaller steps that can be taken to secure our files from being tampered with except via the code we write?
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You could look at encryption. We've used Cryptor from Xitech (www.xitech-europe.co.uk) without problems but there are others (or you could roll your own)

HTH,
Viv