Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Mon Aug 18 15:03:58 CDT 2003
But isn't there a delay in clearing out locks in the ldb file? If they shut down on one machine and went to another, is there any guarantee that the lock would be gone? Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:02 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Restrict # of User Logins to Access Part 2 My solution to use the .ldb should work fine with the BE .mdb. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Greg S [mailto:weeden1949 at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 2:45 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Restrict # of User Logins to Access Part 2 Well, in the midst of explaining myself more clearly (seems I have to do that a lot at my age...), I discovered I may have left out a VERY vital detail. Each user's application resides on his or her local machine, so the only way to see who's logged in will have to be through the secured mdw file. In other words, I won't be able to have a common table in the Front End to use for comparisons or times. Everything will have to reside in the BE, where there are no queries or forms, just tables. This may or may not make any difference, but I thought you all should know that. Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg S" <weeden1949 at hotmail.com> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Restrict # of User Logins to Access Charles: Well, phooey. Once again I made myself NOT clear...like mud. Sorry. What I meant was the same username (Phred, for example...), can't be logged into the db more than once, at the same time. Regardless of what terminal or workstation they are on. If Phred is in the DB once, another user (or the same one at a different computer) can't login with Phred again. And, now that you mentioned that, she also did say she wanted to restrict their times in the database. The database is online within their offices 24/7, except during backups, but she wants to restrict them to using it from, say, for example, Monday through Friday, 0900-1500, only. I haven't thought about that too much yet, but it might not be too hard to implement. Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wortz, Charles" <CWortz at tea.state.tx.us> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:20 PM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Restrict # of User Logins to Access Greg, Once in a lifetime? Or once in a day? Or once in an hour? If it is the first, then you have a separate table with flags you set for each user. Once the flag is set, they are locked out forever. For the latter options, you add a date/time field to record when they accessed and then compare the time of their next attempt to access to see if the proper length of time has expired. Charles Wortz Software Development Division Texas Education Agency 1701 N. Congress Ave Austin, TX 78701-1494 512-463-9493 CWortz at tea.state.tx.us -----Original Message----- From: Greg S [mailto:weeden1949 at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday 2003 Aug 18 10:53 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Restrict # of User Logins to Access Hello everyone! I got a request from a client that I'm not sure how to handle...and I hedged enough so as NOT to commit to anything until I have it figured out. Their current system is in Access 97, using full Access's security. It's setup fairly well, with users being members of groups and rights assigned to the groups. Now she's thrown me a curve. She wants to allow users from another department to login to her system, but ONLY ONCE (her reasoning is sound - she does not want users from another group tying up all her resouces and licenses with multiple logins). That is, that username can only login to the Application once...one concurrent usage. Windows security would do this easily, but Access 97's doesn't have a place to select the number of logins per user. Any suggestions on how to do this? I've just had a second temporary crown put in this morning (since last week), it's fairly early, I've NOT had sufficient coffee, and I'm a bit fuzzy (fuzzier??) around the edges this morning and it's not readily apparent to me on how to do this. Thanks!! 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