Re: Philly-To-London via Intranet?

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:grbb32pkr7e92j7hohti7l9c7im7blgn1r@xxxxxxx:

The server thing sounds like it would break my little
deployment/work table scheme.

All work tables are in C:\Temp - as is the local copy of the front
end, which gets downloaded/updated automagically by a .BAT file.

In a Terminal Server environment, you could just put it in the
location referred to by the %TEMP% variable, which will be in the
profile of each user.

Since Win2K, no one should be placing any files anywhere but in the
approved locations. For data, that's in the user profile. For users,
that's in the PROGRAMS folder. It would seem that an Access app is a
program so that you'd put it in the PROGRAMS folder, but that is not
a good approach, as the MDB needs to be read/write, and by default
from Win2K on, the PROGRAMS folder is READ-ONLY for
non-administrative users. By putting your app in the PROGRAMS
folder, you're forcing your users to run as administrative users
(which is very bad from a security standpoint) or forcing an
administrator to change the default permissions on the folder where
your app is installed. It's better to put the MDB in user space,
instead.

This does make relinking somewhat more diffucult in that you have to
do it for each user installation (and multiple users of a single PC
will have multiple copies of the front end), but that is the proper
way to insure that your app will work for people logging in as users
and not as administrators. It's the proper way to engineer
applications for Windows.

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
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