All users must be admins?

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I have a current situation some of my customers that run a particular fuel
data software that uses access databases. I noticed that all users of the
program had to be given admin rights - and this poses a severe security risk
I know. I've tried granting permissions on the files and folders that are
affiliated with the program, along with that of the MS Office folder, but
there are forever errors coming up, sometimes a Jet(?) error or a runtime
error. After talking to the software programmer and designer I was informed
that it was due to a temporary folder that's created by Access. According to
him the temp folder only carries Admin permissions. I know this can't be
right. Unfortunately I don't have anything further to add as far as error
codes go except for error 3051. I'm afraid I'm going to get a call telling
me that someone's network is down because someone with admin rights decided
to reak havoc on the server.

Is there anyone out there who might be able to shed some light on this for
me? I know I'm not bringing much to the table to work with, but I'll get
more info as soon as I can.

Thanks in advance,
Dave
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