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Hello All
I have a secured A2K mdb, split with the BE (and the mdw file) on the fileserver, and lots of FEs on various PCs. Until recently all the PC were running W2k and A2k, but now we have 2 running Wxp and A2003. With the same FE, and (virtually) the same shortcut to open the FEs (the difference is just the path to msaccess.exe) on these two PCs as on all the others, I find that most users, on the 2 new PCs, do not have permission to open the startup form. It doesn't seem to matter how many time I set this permission (for the entire group Users) on the 'master' FE, every time I copy the master FE to either of the 2 new PCs I get the same permission problem.
I can't understand this because the shortcut to the FEs on the new PCs points to the same mdw file as the shortcut on all the other PCs. The problem seems to be something to do with the operating system, because it is confined to the 2 PCs with Wxp.
Hope someone can help.
Many thanks Leslie Isaacs
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It is unlikely IMO that the permissions are being automagically changed to something else.
Are you /certain/ you are using the exact same workgroup file in each case? Temporarily modify the FE to display its name (dbengine.systemdb), just to be sure.
HTH, TC
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Hello TC
Thanks for your reply.
The shortcut to open the FE on all the W2k PCs is: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw"
The shortcut to open the FE on the two Wxp PCs is: "C:\Program Files\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw"
I wasn't sure what you meant by "Temporarily modify the FE to display its name (dbengine.systemdb)": this is obviously my ignorance, but what exactly should I do here?
Many thanks for your continued help. Les.
"TC" <aatcbbtccctc[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1130294026.405715.162880[ at ]g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
[Quoted Text] > It is unlikely IMO that the permissions are being automagically changed > to something else. > > Are you /certain/ you are using the exact same workgroup file in each > case? Temporarily modify the FE to display its name > (dbengine.systemdb), just to be sure. > > HTH, > TC >
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Leslie Isaacs wrote:
[Quoted Text] > > The shortcut to open the FE on all the W2k PCs is: > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc > database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw" > > The shortcut to open the FE on the two Wxp PCs is: > "C:\Program Files\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc > database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw"
Try changing that path to msaccess.exe to the full pathname i.e. Micros~2 to Microsoft Office2 (or whatever it really is)
-- Joan Wild Microsoft Access MVP
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If you placed the following line of code somewhere in your startup code, or attached to a button on a form, for example, it would display the name of the workgroup file that Access is using at that point in time:
msgbox dbengine.systemdb
This would serve to independently confirm that you were using the workgroup file that you think you are using.
HTH, TC
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Thanks for that I have added a button to the form, with Leslie Isaacs help, but as I cannot access the form from the workstations that I want to check the workgroup file for, this hasn't really helped. If you can suggest where else I can check for the workgroup file that would be great. Thanks Jane
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[Quoted Text] > If you placed the following line of code somewhere in your startup > code, or attached to a button on a form, for example, it would display > the name of the workgroup file that Access is using at that point in > time: > > msgbox dbengine.systemdb > > This would serve to independently confirm that you were using the > workgroup file that you think you are using. > > HTH, > TC >
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Thanks for that, but unfortunately it hasn't helped because I added a button to the form as suggested (Les Isaacs talked me through this from home) because I cannot access the form on the workstations that I want to check the workgroup file for. Any further help would be much appreciated. Thanks Jane
"TC" <aatcbbtccctc[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1130379381.637851.83460[ at ]f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
[Quoted Text] > If you placed the following line of code somewhere in your startup > code, or attached to a button on a form, for example, it would display > the name of the workgroup file that Access is using at that point in > time: > > msgbox dbengine.systemdb > > This would serve to independently confirm that you were using the > workgroup file that you think you are using. > > HTH, > TC >
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I have changed this but unfortunately it hasn't helped. Thanks anyway Jane
"Joan Wild" <jwild[ at ]nospamtyenet.com> wrote in message news:ew2m6Ck2FHA.3092[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
[Quoted Text] > Leslie Isaacs wrote: > > > > The shortcut to open the FE on all the W2k PCs is: > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc > > database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw" > > > > The shortcut to open the FE on the two Wxp PCs is: > > "C:\Program Files\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc > > database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw" > > Try changing that path to msaccess.exe to the full pathname i.e. > Micros~2 to Microsoft Office2 (or whatever it really is) > > -- > Joan Wild > Microsoft Access MVP > >
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Given the timing of your response, and your answer to other questions, realize that you have to change the shortcut on the WinXP computers (which you say you don't have access to at the moment)????
-- Joan Wild Microsoft Access MVP
Leslie Isaacs wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I have changed this but unfortunately it hasn't helped. > Thanks anyway > Jane > > "Joan Wild" <jwild[ at ]nospamtyenet.com> wrote in message > news:ew2m6Ck2FHA.3092[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... >> Leslie Isaacs wrote: >>> >>> The shortcut to open the FE on all the W2k PCs is: >>> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc >>> database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw" >>> >>> The shortcut to open the FE on the two Wxp PCs is: >>> "C:\Program Files\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\wkhc >>> database\telnumbers.mdb" /wrkgrp "\\clinical\public\secured.mdw" >> >> Try changing that path to msaccess.exe to the full pathname i.e. >> Micros~2 to Microsoft Office2 (or whatever it really is) >> >> -- >> Joan Wild >> Microsoft Access MVP >> >> > > > ---------------------------------------- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 4 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now!
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Sorry, I don't see how you can debug a problem on a remote PC, unless there is someone there who can follow instructions - such as, to click the new button & write down what appears in the message!
TC
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