>Hi Frank, thanks for your reply.
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>User-rights ??
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>I was'nt aware that this was available in VFP tables, How do I set up rights ? (Also will other applications respect these rights e.g. If a user has an app written in Access and he tries to access the VFP tables thtough ODBC or OLEDB)


Well, we are all aware of the fact that our VFP-Files and DBC's are file based and so the ability of doing things with them depend on the rights of the user.

If You have a folder that can only be accessed by the Administrator and one single User (the VFP-App) no other User, or application and I think no ODBC-Driver can extend these rights.

You could for example create a DSN in the System-Context and let the System have readonly rights to the Folder or Tables. In this case anyone should be able to use the DSN but only with readOnly access

I did not try that but that's the way I assume it works.