>I think I'll begin to count your errors.
>Error 1. This is not true at all. There are several ways to protect the DBFs from access by a user that has to have access to the application.
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>1. You can run the app as a different user.
>2. Run via a COM solution or webservice
>3. Run on TS/Citrix
>4. Use advanced userrights to prevent listing of directories, deleting of files.
>5. Use cryptor to encrypt data (does not prevent delete and change, but does prevent unauthorized reading)
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>I'm not going to say that is sufficient to match SQL servers security. Not at all, but your statement is plain wrong...
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>Walter,


I could probably strap wings to a washing machine and eventually figure out how to make it fly too......