>The capacity of memory sticks and such is growing everyday. They make it very easy for a user to copy entire files off the network and walk off with them.
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>Is there anyway to prevent this?
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>Assume that the user needs read/write access when they use the application.
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>This would be a different way to express the question:
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>Can I specify that only one program has read/write access to the files unless the user has sufficiently high rights? (I still need to copy the files from time to time.)
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>Ummm... Two programs (system backup program, etc.)
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>Peter
Peter, another way of protecting the tables is by using impersonation, where the tables reside in a protected folder to which the users have no access, but your VFP application does by impersonating a user that has access to the folder, you can see a simple sample here in Message #
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