Who is John?

[Vaughan]

A user just phoned me up with a database problem: empty file, no records, layouts or fields. Looks like it's been trashed -- on network server with no password. <sigh> Trying to restore from server backup as I type.

In desperation they opened the database in MS Word. Try it yourself! (Make a b/u just in case.) Open as Text Only.

So who is John?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Too bad about your clients. We know that approximately 5 of every 6 netorks will be the target of a security incursion during the year.

Use a good password system. And do not try to "improve" on the built-in FileMaker Pro password system. You WILL almost always WEAKEN your security, rather than enhance it.

Old Advance Man

[Vaughan]

Oh, they aren't my clients so it's not my problem either!

I'm the FMP wizard around this large organisation I work in, and I get phoned up whenever there are problems even if it's somebody elses database. Make that *especially* if it's somebody elses database.

Had they been my "clients" the database would have been password protected and taken off the network server and put onto a FM host of some sort -- even just a PC in the corner running FMP. Users are then given an opener file on their desktops to access the system.