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
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