[GNC] GnuCash multi-user request

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 2/23/2022 3:48 AM, Andreas van Rensburg wrote:
> Hi - is it possible to have multi-user access to a file and how does one
> set this up?
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas

Multiple SEQUENTIAL users is supported (if they all have access to a 
shared data location where the gnucash data file is stored.

Multiple SIMULTANEOUS users is not. Since you asked "how" I will explain 
that this requires a DBM (database manager) with the application program 
(in  this case gnucash) running under the control of the DBM << I used 
to work in the mainframe DB2/SQL environment >>

The problem is to allow multiple (simultaneous) users READ access to the 
data but only one at a time WRITE access << and then updating the data 
that all users see and r=freeing up WRITE so another user can get it.

Gnucash does not have a DBM so can't support multiple simultaneous 
users. But I put that badly. Typically an application program does not 
contain the DBM but the type of database does, and then multiple 
applications that access that type of database can all be coded to run 
under that DBM.

Michael D Novack