MS-Acces and Active Directory

[Michael Charney]

Using MS-Access 2003 is there a way to conect to the Active Directory to
use the user accounts and security in an Access DB?

[Eric Schittlipz]

"Michael Charney" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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Using MS-Access 2003 is there a way to conect to the Active Directory to
use the user accounts and security in an Access DB?

No. At least not a nice easy built-in way. You could write code to create
accounts in your workgroup file which match those in the active directory,
but what about passwords? Are you looking for something like you have with
SQL Server where you can use Windows authentication to give you access to a
database without having to explicitly login to the database? I could make
some suggestions but since an Access database cannot be secured in any
meaningful way, it would be silly to start dreaming up how you could link
the two forms of login.