Could you put the db file on a linux share and just have the windows user (who would not be the owner) change it from there? That way the user does not have access to change the permissions.
- Jeff On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:32 AM, -ray wrote: > > All, > > We have an IIS/Frontpage server here that a few faculty use. They > mainly > use it for creating simple forms that tie to an access database. > From what i gather they can tie the html form to the access > database with little to no programming experience, so dont have to > bug us or our programmers for little tiny projects. > > Been having problems with Windows reseting the permissions on the > db files and breaking the forms, and it's driving us nuts. My > options are: > > 1) Fix it. Or pay MS support some $$$ to fix it. (blah) > 2) Rebuild the server and hope that fixes it. (blah) > 3) Replace it with a good linux/apache system. > > Obviously #3 is preferable. Any suggestions? It'd be nice if they > could still use frontpage, and have their html forms tie to a Mysql > db. Not sure how frontpage could do this though...it uses asp for > this. Open source would be nice, but at this point we'd be willing > to spend some money to get rid of the Windows server. > > ray > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
