We have a network folder that users have READ access to. I need for some users to be able to add content to the folder, but only under program control as there's a database associated with all the contents.

How would I give a vb program write access to a directory that the user running the program only has read access to?

The shared network folder contains scanned documents. Things like BOMs(bill of materials), production notes, drawings, and so on. The documents are sorted into subfolders to limit the number of files within a single folder.

Information about each document is stored in an Access database to make looking up documents about a specific item easier. The documents are also printed out automatically during the creation of a work order to give the production team the information they need to build the item. Before the scanned documents were set up, we used to have a group of people pulling folders and making photo copies. Took a lot of time and document folders were sometimes put back in the wrong location.

User update access to the Access database is not the problem. The problem is update access to the folder were the scanned documents are kept. If somebody accidently renames or deletes a file we'll have problems, so all users have read-only access. I want the VB program to be able to add new documents to the folder after it's verified the user input.

however, I suspect that since Windows Security is an oxymoron that such a feature doesn't exist.

I'll probably end up doing your latter suggestion, was just hoping to find a "program security" way to do it as the code is a bit cleaner that way.