[GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer
I currently use QuickBooks for business accounting software. Never liked it and am in the process of replacing our server. We have a 5 year old version that is no longer supported so if there’s a problem migrating the program we’re out of luck. I would like a simpler program. QuickBooks is too much and too little. The question about GNU Cash is can it be installed on workstations that work from a central file. We only have 3 users that all do different tasks so conflicting data entry won’t be an issue. Thanks, Terry L Simon inLOOP - Designed and manufactured in the US 6653 Grand Haven Road Norton Shores, MI 49456 USA (231) 798-2399 ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer
I have my gnucash file saved in a Dropbox account. Multiple people can access the file so long as they have the Dropbox account credentials. Gnucash generates a LCK file when the main file is opened, so another person trying to open the file at the same time as someone else will see a warning error saying that a lock can't be established. Regards, etc On Fri., 4 Dec. 2020, 06:59 Terry Simon, wrote: > I currently use QuickBooks for business accounting software. Never liked > it and am in the process of replacing our server. We have a 5 year old > version that is no longer supported so if there’s a problem migrating the > program we’re out of luck. I would like a simpler program. QuickBooks is > too much and too little. The question about GNU Cash is can it be installed > on workstations that work from a central file. We only have 3 users that > all do different tasks so conflicting data entry won’t be an issue. > > Thanks, > > Terry L Simon > inLOOP - Designed and manufactured in the US > 6653 Grand Haven Road > Norton Shores, MI 49456 USA > (231) 798-2399 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:10:15 +1000 Nelson Handcock wrote: > I have my gnucash file saved in a Dropbox account. Multiple people can > access the file so long as they have the Dropbox account credentials. > > Gnucash generates a LCK file when the main file is opened, so another > person trying to open the file at the same time as someone else will > see a warning error saying that a lock can't be established. > > Regards, etc > > On Fri., 4 Dec. 2020, 06:59 Terry Simon, wrote: > > > I currently use QuickBooks for business accounting software. Never > > liked it and am in the process of replacing our server. We have a 5 > > year old version that is no longer supported so if there’s a > > problem migrating the program we’re out of luck. I would like a > > simpler program. QuickBooks is too much and too little. The > > question about GNU Cash is can it be installed on workstations that > > work from a central file. We only have 3 users that all do > > different tasks so conflicting data entry won’t be an issue. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Terry L Simon Nelson provides the standard answer. However there are alternate ways of working which would make the system usable. If each of those three people had their subset of the books as "their" Gnucash file, they could work as they needed without concern for others except for the time when the senior person is taking the totals and transferring data into the comprehensive set of data. One regular contributor can explain this better than I can. I am not aware that data from QuickBooks can be imported into Gnucash. One way of dealing with this is to use both sets of books in parallel while you learn how to make the new program work for you, and at the end of a financial period close off QuickBooks and then just continue with Gnucash. Please ask more questions to help you decide if GnuCash is for you and your company. Liz ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer
Terry As Nelson pointed out there is no real problem with accessing a GnuCash data file from multiple computers as long as the computers have access to the file location.This is OK provided access to that file by the separate users is not simultaneous and each user checks that the other users have closed the file before opening it to enter data. As Nelson has pointed out the ,LCK file will warn a user that the file is opened by another user but that warning can be manually overridden by any other user. GnuCash's database backends do not currently have individual record locking capability for historical reasons associated with its implementation and that would be necessary to allow users simultaneous access to the data file without loss of data. This is projected as a future improvement but is contingent on a rewrite of major sections of the core code some of which is underway, however there is no definite time frame at the moment. David Cousens - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer
GnuCash is currently not set up to be multi-user. Multiple people can work in the same file, just not at the same time. Regards, Adrien On 12/3/20 12:23 PM, Terry Simon wrote: I currently use QuickBooks for business accounting software. Never liked it and am in the process of replacing our server. We have a 5 year old version that is no longer supported so if there’s a problem migrating the program we’re out of luck. I would like a simpler program. QuickBooks is too much and too little. The question about GNU Cash is can it be installed on workstations that work from a central file. We only have 3 users that all do different tasks so conflicting data entry won’t be an issue. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
