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

[John Griessen]

On 5/10/22 14:16, John Griessen wrote:
> Ah so.  Then probably the OP *can* avoid 2 installs of gnucash.  It would maybe look like this to launch gnucash from a shared dir 
> on a LAN:
> 
> $ /shared/gnucash4.10/gnucash   /shared/books1/books1.gnucash
> 
> The work of putting the executable in a nonstandard place might be more than just using two installs and making them be the same 
> version.

That nonstandard install work could be justified by the lock files working well in such a scenario.   The  /shared dir on the LAN 
could be a low power always on little server with no windowing system to crash and a lock would really be a lock and not result of 
a power off or crash.  To skip the lock file you would need to talk to the other person first.