Installing over a network

[jason galbraith]

Sorry it's probably been asked a lot before, but can Ecabs or even library, materials etc.be installed on on nasbox or server and then all the other computers link back to that. We now have 5 computers running Ecabs and the Librarys are on each computer and of course changes get made to one library and not the other and it's getting really messy.

[Jason Susnjara]

Hi Jason,

I understand your issue and realize that a lot of our users have this problem but at this time, eCabinets is not capable of running on a server.

thanks,

[Rick Deskins]

While eCabinets can not be run on a server, the user data directory can be placed on a network share and all the computer can map the network drive to a drive letter and point it to this directory. All users will see the same cabinets, assemblies, doors, drawers, jobs, etc. The settings is found under Settings/Preferences under User Data Path. A couple things to note. 1. Materials is not be shared between computers 2. The Hardware database is not shared between computers. The only way to sync those is to do a backup and restore. 3. There is no file locking. So users can save over each others work.

[jason galbraith]

Thank you.

[jason galbraith]

Hi there, so we finally got around to insalling a NAS and I've shared my library - copied the entire thermwood folder over to the NAS - and shared it and it SEEMS to work, but it keeps throwing up this error whenever i save or open jobs, does it pretty much all the time doesn't matter whether I click yes or no. Do you know what might be causing this?

[Brad McIntosh]

I will quickly guess that it may be the apostrophe " ' " in the directly path. When it is being parsed by the "scripting sub-system" that "symbol" in "jason's library" may be messing things up. Try keeping apostrophe's, double quotes, @ and &'s out of the directory path names and see.

[jason galbraith]

Great thinking. I'll give that a try. Thanks.