I haven't used workgroup security for many years and forgot how it all works
but have a situation now where I have an access 2000 database that uses
workgroup security and possibly other security and I'm trying to figure out
how to get it so I can design forms or export the forms out of the database
into an unsecured database.

I purchased one of those $30 workgroup password crackers and ran it, here's
the results:

Lets assume the database is called XXX.MDB
and the workgroup is called WWW.MDW

For the workgroup we have:
"wuser" and "wpassword" as the user/password

for startup we have:
"suser" and "spassword" as the user/password

How would I go about creating a commandline to start this thing and be able
to have permissions to access the forms etc...?

I tried:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSAccess.exe" "C:\MyPath\XXX.mdb"
/wrkgrp "C:\MyPath\WWW.mdw" /user "wuser" /pwd "wpassword"

and a few other combinations with no luck.

I get a message: "you don't have read this object" when I try and design a
form.


The normal application is run by using this commandline:
/runtime /profile "ZZZProfile" /wrkgrp "C:\MyPath\WWW.mdw"
"C:\MyPath\XXX.mdb" /user Admin /pwd Admin
and that works fine.

Any help is appreciated,
The developer who wrote this is no longer around,
Thanks,
Mark

forget it I figured it out.
Mark
"Mark Andrews" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I haven't used workgroup security for many years and forgot how it all
>works but have a situation now where I have an access 2000 database that
>uses workgroup security and possibly other security and I'm trying to
>figure out how to get it so I can design forms or export the forms out of
>the database into an unsecured database.
>
> I purchased one of those $30 workgroup password crackers and ran it,
> here's the results:
>
> Lets assume the database is called XXX.MDB
> and the workgroup is called WWW.MDW
>
> For the workgroup we have:
> "wuser" and "wpassword" as the user/password
>
> for startup we have:
> "suser" and "spassword" as the user/password
>
> How would I go about creating a commandline to start this thing and be
> able to have permissions to access the forms etc...?
>
> I tried:
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSAccess.exe"
> "C:\MyPath\XXX.mdb" /wrkgrp "C:\MyPath\WWW.mdw" /user "wuser" /pwd
> "wpassword"
>
> and a few other combinations with no luck.
>
> I get a message: "you don't have read this object" when I try and design a
> form.
>
>
> The normal application is run by using this commandline:
> /runtime /profile "ZZZProfile" /wrkgrp "C:\MyPath\WWW.mdw"
> "C:\MyPath\XXX.mdb" /user Admin /pwd Admin
> and that works fine.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> The developer who wrote this is no longer around,
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

On 12 Jan., 15:44, "Mark Andrews" wrote:
> forget it I figured it out.
You took the quotes away?

Marco P