[GNC] Configuration dilemma -- How best to share Gnucash? between 2 users

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue May 10 13:00:14 EDT 2022


At Tue, 10 May 2022 10:09:55 -0600 John Griessen <john at industromatic.com> wrote:

> 
> On 5/9/22 10:57, Westshire Realty wrote:
> > Prefer to avoid maintaining two separate apps intalled on devices and sharing just the data file.
> 
> I'm not aware that gnucash can run remotely without you making a way via programs like vnc or xwindows, which sounds like extra 
> work on a mac.  It's easy to keep gnucash installed at same revision with a flatpak installation, so you can then just run gnucash 
> from your local machine and open the file on the shared volume:

I don't believe the OP is running gnucash remotely, just storing the gnucash 
executable on a shared disk.

> 
> $ gnucash   /shared/books1/books1.gnucash
> 
> I've not used macports -- you may have to make sure the two machines both use the same revision:
> 
> sudo port install gnucash  on both machines each time it is done...
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