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hi folks,

i have a question about developing a packaged dbase application. i want to be able to distribute an application that does not allow the end user any way to view the code and table relationships w/o having to set up user/workgroup security. is this possible, (MDE)? can anyone recommend steps they've taken to ensure that folks can't steal their ideas?

many thanks to everyone for any comments and ideas.

 

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hi pat. thanks for the response. so in order to really protect your application you have to do user/workgroup security. i've never really done user/workgroup security, but will this require someone to basically act as a DBA assigning new folks priviledges to the dbase? can the user/workgroup security be integrated with NT security? so after a user logs onto their NT account their priviledges for the Access dbase are already set? as sort of a separate question, are there any advantages to developing a web based application (Access BE and ASP FE) where users only have access to the application through their browsers? thanks for your comments.

 

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thanks for the help pat.