Hello. Is there a way to protect FM files from being copied or burned
to a CD?...
how do companies protect their Filemaker databases so employees cannot
take them out of the company?
Our email address: <estudi@rosazul.com>
thanks,
daniel

prensa wrote:

> Hello. Is there a way to protect FM files from being copied or burned
> to a CD?...
> how do companies protect their Filemaker databases so employees cannot
> take them out of the company?
> Our email address: <estudi@rosazul.com>

They put them on a filemaker server and don't allow file access to the 
server. Then they turn off export privileges in each database so the 
clients can not export the data. You can also turn off copying of the 
data so they can't copy the data record-by-record.

But even then, it's not foolproof. If you give employees access to the 
data, then they have access to the data. You can only make it harder for 
them to get it in quantity.

In article <ccc6hd$2fp$1@zcars0v6.ca.nortel.com>, Kevin Hayes
<me@here.com> wrote:

> prensa wrote:
> 
> > Hello. Is there a way to protect FM files from being copied or burned
> > to a CD?...
> > how do companies protect their Filemaker databases so employees cannot
> > take them out of the company?
> > Our email address: <estudi@rosazul.com>
> 
> They put them on a filemaker server and don't allow file access to the 
> server. Then they turn off export privileges in each database so the 
> clients can not export the data. You can also turn off copying of the 
> data so they can't copy the data record-by-record.
> 
> But even then, it's not foolproof. If you give employees access to the 
> data, then they have access to the data. You can only make it harder for 
> them to get it in quantity.

You can also do something like an opening script that checks the drive
/ computer name and quits if it's "wrong" ... but hard-coding that sort
of stuff into a database is annoying when you later need to move it for
a legitmate reason (eg. upgrading the computer).

Helpful Harry                   
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships  ;o)

There is nothing that I know of, but copying the database to a CD or other
media is really not your problem.  Your problem is that once they copy it to
CD they can then install it on another system.

If you go to the plugin section at Filemaker.com you will find some plugins
that takes care of this.  One that I know of is called Code-X.  Check it
out.

-- 

Paul Zieper
Dynamic Computer Consulting

"prensa" <rosazuld@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b9e07c95.0407051006.21bfe631@posting.google.com...
> Hello. Is there a way to protect FM files from being copied or burned
> to a CD?...
> how do companies protect their Filemaker databases so employees cannot
> take them out of the company?
> Our email address: <estudi@rosazul.com>
> thanks,
> daniel