GnuCash add into network

[Shantha Jayasundara]

Thank you very much.

Best Regards 

Shantha 

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:36 PM
To: Shantha Jayasundara
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: GnuCash add into network

hi,

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"Shantha Jayasundara" <shanthaj at isb.lk> writes:

> We appreciate your response highly. Please guide us how can we share a
> common datafile among multiple users. Instructions given in the user-guide
> seems to be insufficient. And could you recommend us a free software for
> point of sale (stock management)purpose. 

Just set up a standard file sharing mechanism.  How you do that is
dependent on your local network infrastructure and is out of scope for
GnuCash documentation.

As for POS software, I have no recommendations for you.  Sorry.

> Best Regards 
>
> Shantha  

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:34 PM
> To: Shantha Jayasundara
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: GnuCash add into network
>
> Hi,
>
> "Shantha Jayasundara" <shanthaj at isb.lk> writes:
>
>> How we can add GnuCash into a network enabling to use the program by
multi
>> users. 
>
> I'm afraid that at this time GnuCash cannot be used simultaneously by
> multiple users.  You CAN have multiple users that share a single
> datafile/database provided that only one person is running GnuCash at a
> time.
>
> While adding multi-user support is on the wish-list, it's not there now
> and wont be in 2.4.
>
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
> -derek

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