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gbaughma

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This is probably a simple one....

I am writing a file management application. I want users to be able to upload files to the system, however, the users don't have write permissions to the target directory in which the file will ultimately be placed.

So, I need a user to be able to click on a file to upload (using common dialogue), then through VBA rename and send that file along to a server that only the application has permissions to write to.

Thoughts or suggestions?


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Unless I misunderstand the question, the application doesn't actually have rights - the user or process running the application has the rights.

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True.

Except in this case, there's a database backend, and a front-end.

The idea is to have the filemanager process have the rights to create/retrieve files; the user wouldn't directly have those rights.

So I need to figure out how to have the application get the file, then write the file out to the folder/filename that I specify (that the process would have the rights to).



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Perhaps FTP is a solution? I can not think of any other way to instatiniate a user and assume permissions for a normal copy process. There may be some other tools, such as RoboCopy, which may offer such features. Good Luck...

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That's a possibility... FTP the files up to the server.... let me think on that. Have a *. :)



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