Using Money 2003 over a home LAN

I want my wife and myself to be able to use Money 2003 on
our individual systems on our LAN (yes, we're nerds at
heart) and work on the same data file on another system.
That way we can divide-and-conquer the chores. Is this
possible?

Thanks for the help

Stephen

Dick
Fri Aug 01 21:15:58 CDT 2003

Money will access files in the UNC namespace. This means it will work with
data files over the LAN. BE VERY CAREFUL, however, as Money will mangle a
file if you try to simultaneously access it from different machines. This
includes "sneak" uses like MoneyExpress, MoneySide, and Background Banking.

"Stephen" <stephen@mediaq.net> wrote in message
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> I want my wife and myself to be able to use Money 2003 on
> our individual systems on our LAN (yes, we're nerds at
> heart) and work on the same data file on another system.
> That way we can divide-and-conquer the chores. Is this
> possible?

David
Sat Aug 02 02:07:30 CDT 2003

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:erOsCwJWDHA.888@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

> .... Money will mangle a
> file if you try to simultaneously access it from different machines. This
> includes "sneak" uses like MoneyExpress, MoneySide, and Background
Banking.


Also from different users logged in on the _same_ machine using Fast User
Switching under XP.

For a long time I didn't use Money Express; but I recently started using it,
and didn't realise the potential impact when my wife Switched User and
started up Money to access our joint data file.


--
rgds
David Brownridge

Larry
Sat Aug 02 04:40:31 CDT 2003

Stephen,

I use MS Money over a network and it works like a champ. My wife and I
both have our individual files on our respective computers. I set down
at my wife's computer and can access my file on my computer and access
her file from my computer.

Larry


> I want my wife and myself to be able to use Money 2003 on
> our individual systems on our LAN (yes, we're nerds at
> heart) and work on the same data file on another system.
> That way we can divide-and-conquer the chores. Is this
> possible?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Stephen

Stephen
Sat Aug 02 10:19:45 CDT 2003

Thanks Larry, Think I'll give it a shot with a cautionary
watch over the other points mentioned here. I'm hoping if
I just use a central data storage, and we don't use it
simultaneously, we should be fine. I'll be sure to keep
frequent backups, just in case :)


>-----Original Message-----
>Stephen,
>
>I use MS Money over a network and it works like a champ.
My wife and I
>both have our individual files on our respective
computers. I set down
>at my wife's computer and can access my file on my
computer and access
>her file from my computer.
>
>Larry
>
>
>> I want my wife and myself to be able to use Money 2003
on
>> our individual systems on our LAN (yes, we're nerds at
>> heart) and work on the same data file on another
system.
>> That way we can divide-and-conquer the chores. Is this
>> possible?
>>
>> Thanks for the help
>>
>> Stephen
>
>.
>