Microsoft KB Archive/209721

= ACC2000: Unable to Change Permissions (Security) =

Article ID: 209721

Article Last Modified on 1/26/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q209721



Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

This article applies to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb) and to a Microsoft Access project (.adp).



SYMPTOMS
When you try to open an object or change permissions for an account, you may receive one of the following error messages:

You can't view this object's permissions.

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No permission for.



CAUSE
Only the database creator, a member of the Admins group in the workgroup in which the database was created, or a user with administrator permissions on a particular object has full permissions to database objects.



RESOLUTION
Contact your database administrator. If you are the database administrator, check to make sure that you are logged in as a user who is a member of the Admins group. If you still have the original user Admin, make sure that it is a member of the Admins group and try again.

