Target Path Security Issue

[Full_Williams]

Hi,

I just added a new user to access this database. Set up an icon on her desktop. Copied and pasted the Target Path from another users icon into hers and I'm getting a message saying "database not found"

1. I've checked to make sure she has access to the folder where the DB is.
2. I've checked to make sure her Access files are located in the same folder as the other users computers.

Any ideas on what this could be?

Thanks,
Full Williams

 

[pbaldy]

One thought is mapped drives. If the target path includes a mapped network drive, the same letter drive would have to be mapped on the new PC.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Given that the message is "not found" rather than "access denied", the odds are pretty high that pbaldy is right. Which is why you should use the universal resource form in an icon. Then the drive letter doesn't matter as much. Static mapping does require some knowledge of the configuration to be stored, well..., statically. Dynamic mapping is better if the application is capable of correctly handling any directory traversal on its own.

Like, instead of mapping "P:" to a public volume, make the icon use "\\server\disk\folder" etc. and let the application figure out where it is.

But there is the odd chance that you would get "not found" if the .MDB file is in a nested folder a couple of levels deep and the new user doesn't have READ access to one of the folders in the path between the .MDB file and the drive's root. Since you can search PART of the path, I'm not sure which message you would get in that case.

 

[Full_Williams]

Yeah the mapped drive letter is the same.

 

[Full_Williams]

I want to apologize, I'm actually not on location so I'm getting my information from someone else. It's the DBSECURE.mdw not found message not that actual database. The mdw file is in the same folder as the database.

Any thoughts on this?

Thank you,
Full Williams