Hi, long time user of GnuCash with various sets of books. Some are currently run in a quasi-office environment such that users in other cities can VPN into our LAN and thus open GnuCash books as though they are on a local server. But this infrastructure is now going away.
So I need to find a way to allow two users, in two different cities, to access a single set of books, but without an office infrastructure. Access will be alternating, thus no simultaneous access. Neither user has static IPs or internet facing servers. So far I have thought of the following (unsatisfactory to varying degrees) mechanisms: 1. Put the data file in an existing MySQL server in the cloud and allow the MySQL lockout mechanisms to deal with access conflicts; 2. Keep an XML file in the cloud and a. Use scripts to upload/download and manage lock semaphores (yuck), b. Use SMB sharing over the internet (double yuck!); or 3. Set up a desktop OS in the cloud and allow users to remote desktop in. None of these are good, but 1) seems better than the others. Perhaps there's a way for the app to run in the cloud but the GUIs are on the remote user machines? All ideas welcome, no matter how inane! _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
