Upgrade from Access 2002 to 2003 problem

[LSSR]

Background:
Server 2003 environment; Databases created in Access 2002 are split. On a
couple of databases the frontend is on the local machine. On other
databases the frontend is not on the local machines but is accessed via a
webpage and is downloaded to the local machine (it’s a long story). Users
do not have local admin privileges. I do not have network admin privileges,
but only local machine admin privileges. Everything works fine.

IT staff installs Office 2003. Users now cannot enter data on their local
machines. I can continue to enter data on my own machine and when I log on
to other users machines. In an experiment the IT staff took away my local
admin privilege. I then could not enter any data on my own machine or any
else’s machine. I get my local admin privileges back and can enter data.

Any thoughts re what the problem is and how this can be fixed? Thanks in
advance.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

All users require RWXD (Read, Write, eXecute, Delete) permissions on the
folder where the back end MDB file exists or the MDB file will be read-only,
regardless of what permissions they have on the file itself.

 

[LSSR]

Thank you for the response. I believe that is already the case as users
were able to enter/save the data. The "cant enter data" was literally
immediate after the 2003 install. Could there be something else? Thank you.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Sorry, but I'm unaware of any change in Access 2003 that would cause this
change of behaviour.