How to share data across multiple machines

[Yawar Amin]

On 2014-01-31, at 6:43, Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.us> wrote:

> On 01/31/2014 04:18 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> [...]
> Why won't there be a lock when Dropbox is used? As far as I can tell, the lock is just a file that GnuCash creates in the filesystem in the same directory as the data file when it starts up, so when it creates that file, shouldn't Dropbox automatically sync it to the other machine(s)?

If Dropbox replicates a lock file on a second machine, won't the GnuCash  instance running on the second machine think that the lock belongs to _it_?

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Regards,

Yawar