Re: You don't have permission to read

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Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP

Len wrote:
> Thanks for all your help. I have tried to change permissions as Admin
> and as a user who is a member of the Admins group. Same error
> message. If I am fact not using the workgroup file that was used to
> secure it originally - then what? - Len
>
> "Joan Wild" wrote:
>
>> The fact that objects show the owner as 'unknown' tells us that he's
>> not using the workgroup file that was used to secure it. So
>> therefore the Admins Group is not the same.
>>
>> --
>> Joan Wild
>> Microsoft Access MVP
>>
>> Tom Stoddard wrote:
>>>
>>> That's precisely my point. Len's posts state that he can log in and
>>> use the database but he can't modify any objects. All that I'm
>>> trying to point out is that just because he's logged in as a user
>>> who is a member of the Admins group doesn't mean that he
>>> automatically has permission to modify objects. Len never stated
>>> whether or not the "Admins Group" has the necessary permissions
>>> required to modify the objects he's trying to modify. It is
>>> possible that the Admins Group does not have those permissions. No
>>> one bothered to ask him that question.
>>> TC seems to think that any user who is a member of the Admins Group
>>> would automatically have permission to modify any object. In a
>>> sense, that's true because of what Joan is saying which is that any
>>> member of the Admins Group has the ability to grant themselves that
>>> permission. I believe I stated that in one of my earlier posts. My
>>> point is that just because the user has the ability to grant those
>>> permissions to himself, doesn't mean that he has granted those
>>> permissions. In that case then he won't have those permissions even
>>> though he is a member of the Admins Group.
>>> Sorry if I'm confusing this issue. I'm just trying to help Len do
>>> what he's trying to do.


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