VB over Access question

[thomas555]

I wrote a decent little application to manipulate data with VB over Access.
I was successfull at packageing the little app as well, but when run on a
target machine with Access installed it's possible to open the Access files
without running the program. Is there a way to prevent that?

thomas

[Arthur Wood]

An Access MDB is an Access MDB. YOu can TRY using Access security, but that
is nototiously shaky and canbe VERY VERY easily cracked.

The only possible "trick" would be to change the EXTENSION of YOUR MDB, and
then HARD-CODE that file path (and New extension) in your program. This
would have the effect of making it less apparent that MyFile.xyz (or wahtever
exension you choose) is, in reality, an Access MDB (the extension that a
file has has NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on what the internal strcuture of the file
really is).

Arthur Wood


"thomas555" <ttt@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>I wrote a decent little application to manipulate data with VB over Access.
>I was successfull at packageing the little app as well, but when run on
a
>target machine with Access installed it's possible to open the Access files
>without running the program. Is there a way to prevent that?
>
>thomas