Here is how you set up your computer to with a user account and an administrator account, in such a way, that the user cannot see the file with the songs in it, and thus, cannot copy them for his own use.
This will work on Windows 2000 and XP Pro for sure, and probably on XP Home.
Before you do all of this, make a restore point. This can be done with XP, not sure about 2000. If you goof something up, you can then go back to the restore point before you goofed. Saved me many times in the past.
You log on under your administrator account.
The first thing you do is go to the control panel and set up a limited user account with a password. That account will be for your employee to use.
Then click on My Computer and click on the drive where Hoster is located.
Then clisk on the MTU folder and the Hoster folder should show. Right click on that and select Sharing.
It will have information about sharing under the network section. If there is a box to click to allow sharing, check it. If not, run the Wizard to set up a network. You don’t have to be online. Just check the boxes that have to do with not online set up. Set up to network with a computer in another room. When it asks you what room, check the box to continue without any more set up regarding where the other room is or what ever.
Click finish and it sets up a network. You then can check the box to allow sharing this folder. Then go back to the Hoster folder and left click on it. Then right click on database and select sharing. Check the box to allow sharing.
Then go to the drive that has the Hoster song folder and right click on it, select sharing, and check the box to allow sharing.
Log out from the administrator account and log on to the user account and open Hoster. Click the Import tab, and go to Tools at the top. Select “Build Song Database”. In the list box at the top, click and delete the Folder that is alredy there. Its default name is "Songs". Then Add the Folders for it to look for your songs. Browse to do this and add each Folder to put their paths in the Build Songs Database List Box.
Then at the bottom you have to put the path to your data base. You browse here also and click so it makes the path which is C:\program files\ micro technology unlimited\hoster\databases
Then click the "Build Song Database" command.
At this point you can go to your playlist and select new, and add track from HD. Then play a song.
Close Hoster, and log off from the user account. Log on to your administrator account, and go to My computer. Get to the folder that has the songs in it. Right click on it and select sharing. Then go to the General Tab and check the box to hide the file. Then when it asks, select “this folder only”.
This last part, I can’t remember well, but I think while you are in that folder you go to Tools and Folder Options, and in the list select show hidden files.
You will be able to see the folder and file while in the administrator account, but the user can not see the file. What he cannot see, he cannot copy.
Log off the Administrator and log on as user. Play a song. Then take a look at the drive where the song folder is located, and you will not see it.
Don't forget to set up a password for the administrator account so only you can get in. WRITE DOWN the password in a safe place you will REMEMBER where it is... or you are in BIG TROUBLE! 