title: Opening Paradox database; 'PDOXUSRS.NET' workaround?
body: <p>I'm writing an application that has to open a preexisting BDE database that has been saved by a third party.</p>
  
  <p>In this application, I currently have a <code>TDatabase</code> (<code>DriverName</code>: <code>STANDARD</code>) with <code>path</code> set correctly in <code>Params</code>.<br>
  I can now set <code>Connected</code> to true without an error message.</p>
  
  <p>There is also a <code>TTable</code> with <code>DatabaseName</code> set to the values of the TDatabase and <code>TableName</code> set to the .db-file that lies in the folder (the name was automatically filled in, I only hat to select it).  </p>
  
  <p>Now the problem:<br>
  If I set <code>Active</code> to true, an error message complains about missing access rights for <code>C:\PDOXUSRS.NET</code>.<br>
  I know I could set another path using <code>BDEADMIN</code>, but I need to solve this in my application - I can't expect every customer to do this change.
  Furthermore, I have a test machine with the third party application running - it can access the database without any error, while my application throws the aforementioned error. This leads me to the suspicion there might be a workaround.</p>
  
  <p>Is there such a workaround?<br>
  I only need read access to the database.</p>