> 4 computer office (through a workgroup).
Well, once you want to do things like that, you'll find basic knowledge of
Windows management indispensable, unfortunately.
> Just happens that I want daily to modify a program's db on
> another computer, converting all the prices from dollars to
> pounds. Long story.
You might find that the best solution isn't to use CF at all - you can
probably do this right from within Access Basic, if you're using a newer
version of Access, right on the computer with the Access file.
> I assume cf can't login as Guest or whatever I am when XP
> starts up? Has to be a 2nd user? (If so, wouldn't all the
> permissions be in place already?)
CF can log in as any user you like as long as that user has the appropriate
privileges and permissions, but since you probably don't know your own
username and password, it's probably easier just to create another user
account.
> The one part that I really don't understand is why I need to
> add the account and set permissions on the *other* computer.
> I would have thought that any account on my computer could
> access any of the available files on the network, and why
> not?, they were already explicitly shared. Seems redundant to
> have to add the account on the other computer, but maybe XP
> does that automatically for normal accounts and this one must
> be done manually? (But I don't see the names of my other
> computers under accounts on my computer.)
In a workgroup, there's no single source for authentication and
authorization. That functionality is provided by a domain. Now, it's
possible that you've set up the other computer so that anyone at all can
access shares on that computer (which is generally not a good idea for
obvious reasons), in which case any regular user account on your CF server
will be able to access those shares. However, I think you'll still need to
set up that user account on the CF server, since the SYSTEM security context
has no rights to network resources at all, and that's what CF runs as by
default.
> But how to permit an account to access a specific file? I
> just know the sharing tab via properties, but that is just
> for network sharing. Or the account details via computer
> management, but nothing there about sharing a specific file.
> I guess just make it a regular account and it works?
As long as that file is within a network share, and the remote user has
permission to access that share and to access the underlying directory, you
don't have to do anything with that file in particular. I suspect that in
your case you won't have to modify share or filesystem permissions, since it
sounds like you have no restrictions on the share or its files.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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