[moneydance] Cross platform, sharing data files, license, family plan?

[dancingbrook]

Thanks RW,

Sorry, that of course should have been iDisk, which appears as a  
network drive on Mac and windows, yet sits on Apple's cloud. The point  
of the question is can MD work with it regardless of where the data  
file sits? Some apps want data stored in a specific place.

On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Robby Workman wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:30:18 -0400
> dancingbrook <dancingbrook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a son in college, physics/computer science major and we are
>> using Macs with OSX, Linux and Windoze (rarely). We are hoping to
>> use MD, as Mint and Quicken don't cut it.
>>
>> Questions:
>> Any concerns re sharing data cross platform?
>
>
> I've not seen any issues at all, with me on Linux and my wife on XP.
>
>
>> Any significant differences between platforms in the app itself?
>
>
> If there are, they've escaped my eye.  Of course, I don't recall the
> last time I even touched the Windows box.
>
>
>> Can I place the data file on my iDaisk and share it with my son  
>> there?
>
>
> I don't know what that is, but what I've done here is:
>
> My multipurpose firewall/router/http/mail/dns/proxy/dhcp/nfs/samba
> server here has a separate drive in it that's mounted at /shared.  I
> then have that mountpoint shared out via NFS and Samba.  The  
> particular
> bits in which you're interested are these:
>
>  liberty $ ls -lh /shared/otherfiles/moneydance-data/
>  -rw-rw---- 1 root     finance  7.5K 2008-09-16 21:06 Checking.md
>  drwxrwx--- 3 root     rworkman   40 2008-02-05 22:01 archives/
>
> Obviously both my wife and me are members of the finance group.
> Bear in mind that there are security implications to sharing something
> like this via NFS (hint: all_squash), but you probably don't intend to
> do that anyway - samba is just fine for what most people need.
>
> -RW
>
>
>
>
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