is 'Admin' a kinda of a genius?

[Guest]

Hello,
I need to have a concept clear. maybe here someione can help me.
In few messages posted I have red that it is possible to have a secured
database accessed from other workgroup via 'admin' user.
I have red that since 'Admin' can't be deleted it is in any database and in
any wrkgrp.
In this way my secured database can be accessed from others by using a
different wrkgrp file (different from the one iused to secure my db).
I'm wondering. If this is true (which maybe surely not since i'm a bit new
in these security thing), since I'm talking about a SECURED database, if
others try to access my database using the default 'Admin' user, they should
be asked for the password for that user. Or not?

Thanks,
Rocco

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

While you can't delete the Admin user, when you secure a database, you're
supposed to remove the Admin id from the Admins user group. When you do
that, it doesn't matter whether they try to use a different workgroup or
not: they won't be able to get into your application.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Douglas,
May I asck you questione.
i have asked it many-many times....nobosy answered. Maybe it can sounds too
easy to know... but...
I have access97, access200, accessXP and access2003 all installed on my pc.
Any release is installed in its own directory.
I have always had trouble using the help file (F1 from VBE). Sometimes it
comes up in a blank windows…sometimes it shows a msg saying “no help
available on this
topicâ€, while “this topic†is - for instance – the adodb recordset. So
mostly of
the time it doesn’t help too much when a try to use it from the object
browser by pressing F1 (blank windows).
One of the most common inconvenient is not having any hint for ADOX. Let’s
say I want help for the ADOX columns collection. If while coding a stay with
the cursor over the word “connection†and press F1, I receive the worse help
possible: a blank windows. So I always have to ask for something more generic
(i.e. adodb connection) and then surf on the help contents for what I really
need.
I usually make a search for *.chm files and move the files I found into the
folder
1033 for having them available by the F1 command. Is this right? And...
Why I have all the ado libraries (i.e. ado 2.1, ado 2.5,…2.8 ) and just one
for adox (which is always the newer one: i.e. Microsoft ado ext. 2.8 for DDl
and security)? What if I want to code for someone that is not as updated as
me? I can reference ado 2.1 (If he has access2000 it will work fine) but I
cannot reference the previous adox versions (maybe I shouldn't).
I read many book but none spend more than few lines on how getting help.

There is any place where I could learn sometimes on how the help file is
organized and how to have any help available?
Thanks, I really appreciate.
Rocco

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Help in many versions of Access is a total mystery, so I'm afraid I can't
help you.