Thanks for these nuggets Harlan.

You probably noticed I also forgot to include the possibilities of moon phases
and whether or not the OP resided above or below the Tropic of Capricorn.

Gord

On 29 Dec 2004 12:54:29 -0800, wrote:

Gord Dibben wrote...
I would go with Frank's suggestion of passwording the file although
there are
password crackers out there freely available on the 'net so if your
data is
extremely sensitive you may re-think this.

FileOpen passwords are MUCH stronger than internal passwords.

If using WindowsXP...........
...

Why limit yourself to WinXP? All the NT variants (NT4, NT5.0 aka 2000,
NT5.1 aka XP) provide permissions on NTFS drives, but no version of
Windows provides any security on FAT file systems. For that matter,
Windows 95/98/Me clients connected to Windows NT/2K/XP/2003 file
servers may be able to set permissions on file server drives (dunno,
never worked where such a configuration was used).

Now restricting access to shared folders implies the person desiring to
do so himself/herself has the necessary permissions to modify
permissions for files and/or folders on shared drives. On
well-administered Windows file servers that's seldom if ever the case.
Nevertheless, the OP may be able to do this (most Windows file servers
are NOT well-administered, but most Windows users are ignorant or the
existence of permissions, so seldom screw them up).