passwords not enough!!

[Brandon]

First of all- Thanks to everyone who helped with my last problem back in May. Rude of me not to say earlier, I know, but...

Anyway, I have a bound product catalogue soloution of all my products, specs, and prices for a specific customer. They run Win NT and want certain departments to have access to it from their server.-BANG- filemaker stopped 'free' networking of bound solutions with FMP5 and Server 5!!

okay, we can run directly from the cd I supply- this much I know works well--

PROBLEM is - How do I prevent unauthorised access to the contents i.e. if my competitors got hold of the cd and password......

QUESTION: Can I write a script that automatically interogates the host operating system and only allows access (password or not) on one of my customers networked machines?

Regards,

Bran.

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by Brandon:

First of all- Thanks to everyone who helped with my last problem back in May. Rude of me not to say earlier, I know, but...

Anyway, I have a bound product catalogue soloution of all my products, specs, and prices for a specific customer. They run Win NT and want certain departments to have access to it from their server.-BANG- filemaker stopped 'free' networking of bound solutions with FMP5 and Server 5!!

okay, we can run directly from the cd I supply- this much I know works well--

PROBLEM is - How do I prevent unauthorised access to the contents i.e. if my competitors got hold of the cd and password......

QUESTION: Can I write a script that automatically interogates the host operating system and only allows access (password or not) on one of my customers networked machines?

Regards,

Bran.

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If the customer does not need unrestricted access to the solution and I would doubt that they do, simply give them a password that does not allow the various development access. Reserve the "Master" password for only yourself.

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Kurt Knippel

Senior Filemaker Developer

http://www.database-resources.com

mailto:[email protected]

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[Brandon]

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Originally posted by captkurt:

If the customer does not need unrestricted access to the solution and I would doubt that they do, simply give them a password that does not allow the various development access. Reserve the "Master" password for only yourself.

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Access is already restricted. What I need to prevent is access to the whole database- including records- unless the machine the CD is loaded in is at my customers premises. In other words I don't want anybody but my customer to have access to it and only on the customers machines.

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by Brandon:

Originally posted by captkurt:

If the customer does not need unrestricted access to the solution and I would doubt that they do, simply give them a password that does not allow the various development access. Reserve the "Master" password for only yourself.

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Access is already restricted. What I need to prevent is access to the whole database- including records- unless the machine the CD is loaded in is at my customers premises. In other words I don't want anybody but my customer to have access to it and only on the customers machines.

I would start by reevaluating that logic. Is this REALLY a necessity?

I do not know of a reliable way to identify ONE particular computer.

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Kurt Knippel

Senior Filemaker Developer

http://www.database-resources.com

mailto:[email protected]

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[Louisa]

Hi Brandon,

I'm not sure how you could do this but you could have a script which executes upon opening the file which checks the machines IP Address and if that's not correct shuts the whole thing down.

Cheers