InfoPath Dev

I've found a load of useful information on the MSDN website http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_2003_ta/html/odc_landinfo03_tr.asp) But there's something that I can't get to work and it's driving me crazy. I've set up a web service to send data to a database. This generates a schema (I think) which sets up the ...

Wow that was quick! Bizarrely enough, if you are using a date picker there is no option to make it read only and if you use the Now() function in a Text Box it screws the formatting up...

How do I make a text box on a form non - editable by a user, but still visible. I want to put a text box in containing the date (using the Now() function) but there's no reason for the user to edit it, so how do I stop them?

OK, so if I want to follow option a) and authenticate within the form itself, how do I do this? Do I need to write some code behind in the scrpit editor or is there an easier way? Security is less of a problem because this will initially run on a small office intranet and is not accessed by the outside world.

Does it have instructions on how to set it up and use it? I'm not a serious developer, I just want to be able to get the current username and password so that people can easily log into sharepoint and see the data that they want.

How do you do the first part? Do you need to edit the code-behind on a form? There are a lot of people asking this question on the forums, and the responses always tend to be 'use system.environment.username'. It would be nice if someone could do a step - by - step tutorial showing how.

Abhishek, I want to do something similar to you. I would be really interested to see how you wrote your web service - do you have any code that you could post or send me? Thanks, Mark Perry.

Doh! Apologies, I was just being dense (it's Friday afternoon). Greg's solution works great. Thanks for the help.

Hmmm... can't get Greg's example to work. Do I need to replicate what I have in the main data source in the secondary data source?

Both these tutorials look like they contain what i'm looking for - thanks.