3 messages, 151 lines: (1)------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:24:37 -0600 From: Diane Neumeister <DNEUMEIS@LORAS.EDU> Subject: Re: Need help setting up user-level security for an Access 97 database Since Michelle and I are not the only ones interested in this information (most of the replies I've received have been requests for information), I'll be happy to summarize to the list in a week or so. So far, the main book people are recommending is: Using Access 97 (or Using Microsoft Access 97) by Que Corp or an earlier or later edition of the book, depending on what version of MS Access is being used. Di Diane Neumeister Serials Asst. Wahlert Memorial Library Loras College Dubuque, IA, USA phone: 319-588-4969 fax: 319-588-7292 e-mail: dneumeis@loras.edu (2)--------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:27:26 -0600 From: " "Kevil, L H." <KevilL@MISSOURI.EDU> Subject: Re: Need help setting up user-level security for an Access 97 database The best book on Access 97 I have seen is: Roger Jennings, Using Access 97 (Platinum edition). Que, 1997, $65 list, hardback, with CD. ISBN: 0-789714116 It is at home so I cannot verify that it covers security in detail, but I would be surprised if it did not. Jennings knows his stuff. Of course now that I am using Access 2000, I don't use that book any more. Jennings did write a new Special edition Using Access 2000, which I like a little better than Cary Prague's Access 2000 Bible. Both authors really know their stuff. L. Hunter Kevil, Collection Development Librarian, 176 Ellis Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65201 Voice: 573-884-8760 Fax: 573-882-6034 E-mail: KevilL@missouri.edu (3)-------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:05:50 -0600 From: "Buddy Pennington" <buddy.pennington@ROCKHURST.EDU> Subject: Re: Need help setting up user-level security for an Access 97 database I am so glad this is on the list as well. We are dealing with the same problem. We want users to be able to view the records in the database without a password, but if anyone tried to make changes to it, they would have to enter a password. Can this be done, and how? Buddy Pennington Acquisitions/Serials Librarian Rockhurst University Greenlease Library buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu #816-501-4143 -----Original Message----- From: Michelle Sitko [mailto:sitko@MARYWOOD1.MARYWOOD.EDU] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:02 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: Need help setting up user-level security for an Access 97 database I would find it hard to believe that this question is "off on a tangent" for this listserv. I suspect that FAR more than a few of us have been grappling with how we could set up and maintain user-level security in a shared area on a campus network for our MS Access databases. PLEASE share what you learn with the list. At least I feel that way. Thank you for sharing your question!! I was SO glad to see it! *** ******* *** "A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares many not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michelle Sitko Coordinator of Collection Management Services/Serials Learning Resources Center Marywood University 2300 Adams Avenue Scranton, PA 18509-1598 Voice: (570) 340-6034 Fax: (570) 961-4769 Email: sitko@ac.marywood.edu URL: http://www.marywood.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Diane Neumeister Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 10:30 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Need help setting up user-level security for an Access 97 database Since this is kind of off on a tangent for this listserv, PLEASE REPLY TO ME DIRECTLY AT: dneumeis@loras.edu. I know some of you use MS Access for various serials functions and I really need help! I've got a serials database that I had protected with a database-level security password because only a few people needed access to it and we all needed access to everything. Now, I need to make the database accessible to the entire staff (by putting it in a shared area in the campus network), but at several different access levels (some read only, some full rights, some in between). In short, I need to set up user-level security. Can anyone suggest a good instruction/reference book for MS Access 97 that CLEARLY explains how to set up & maintain user-level security for a database? Or would somebody who's knows how to do this be willing to share their instructions with me? Please don't suggest using the online help. Usually online help works, but my SysAdmin and I tried that and we finally gave up in frustration. This is too complex an issue: there are so many help topics to navigate through that it was like trying to find our way through a maze: A refers you to B. After a couple of steps, B refers you to C. Another step or two and C refers you to D which refers you back to a later step in B which then refers you to E and so on. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Di Diane Neumeister Serials Asst. Wahlert Memorial Library Loras College Dubuque, IA, USA phone: 319-588-4969 fax: 319-588-7292 e-mail: dneumeis@loras.edu