Multi-user gnucash

John jklar@projectplasma.com
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:54:28 -0400 (EDT)


I don't know how heavily loaded your network is, but as an X application
you *could* execute it on the installed server and have it display on the
workstation.

If internal security is an issue, you should be able to configure ssh to
tunnel X over an encrypted channel.

John Klar

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I have gnucash installed and running on the server. (I downloaded the
> helix code base and that made all the necessary libraries available.)
> 
>   Now, I want to make the application available to the other workstation on
> the network. My wife is the company administrator and will be taking over
> maintaining our personal books, too. She works on a networked host, not on
> the main machine at which I sit for many hours each day.
> 
>   I see that gnucash was installed in /usr/bin. Can I relocate it to an
> exported/nfs-mounted directory such as /opt? Or, am I better off downloading
> and installing helixcode directly from her workstation? If the latter case
> is the way to go, is there any reason why both copies could not point to the
> same, shared data directory?