Database admin tied to physical PC

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Darin D via AccessMonster.com

We have an old legacy database in Access 97 where we can only see and click
on a button on a specific PC. Must sign on with a specific account on that
PC. But if I sign on to another PC on our domain and try to access that
database with the same account, I can't see the button to allow me to click
on it to get to the tables, etc.

This database was not set-up with the normal mdw process. How could this
have been set-up?
 
Lots of ways:

- a registry entry on that PC;
- a normal, hidden or system file on that PC;
- a check for anything else that might exist, or be specific to, that
PC (and not exist, or be different, on other PCs).

If the database has not been secured using user-level security, it
would be trivially easy to get to the database window. Then, assuming
that it was not an MDE, you could look at the code to see how it
worked.

If it /ios/ an MDE, do you still have the MDB? If not, you're stuck
with what you've got. An MDE can not be converted back into an MDB.

HTH,
TC
 
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