Jim Dettman
jimdettman at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 7 15:29:06 CDT 2004
Mark, Yes. If you don't, the first user in will not be able to create a .LDB file and the MDB will get opened in exclusive mode. Beyond that, when a user attaches to the database, Access needs to write to the database header page even if the user is going to be doing read only things. If it can't do that, again the result will be exclusive mode. So users need read/write privilege for the folder and read/write privileges for the MDB file itself. Jim Dettman (315) 699-3443 jimdettman at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News) Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:05 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Permissions Refresher Really? Because in this afternoon's testing I set up a test case where the user was given only Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read to the folder containing the remote db. That user was able to execute a select query in datasheet view, but was not able to modify any of the entries. That's as far as I was able to take the testing thus far. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Jim Dettman [mailto:jimdettman at earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:56 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Permissions Refresher Mark, You can't do what you want through OS level security. You need to use Access level security. All users, regardless of what they do once inside the container need full rights where the directory resides and read/modify on the MDB file itself. Jim Dettman (315) 699-3443 jimdettman at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News) Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:36 PM To: '[AccessD]' Subject: [AccessD] Permissions Refresher Group, I have a database that is currently restricted (by folder permissions) to only a few individual persons. I am now in the process of creating a database for general use that needs to link to a table in that restricted database. Out of the following permissions, what is the minimum necessary to allow a user to execute select queries, but not allow any modifications to the data? Permissions: Allow/Deny? Full Control Modify Read & Execute List Folder Contents Read Write TIA, Mark -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com