Network

[Brandon Crocker]

Hi
I tested pos on my windows xp home network and it work good

Thank You!!!

:D :oops:

[Andrew]

Do you mean you actually were able to ring up two sales at the same time, share the same stock table etc?

Remember - just ringing a sale on one machine, then moving to the second machine and ringing another sale *isn't* really an accurate test of networking POS.

You need to have at least two sales being rung up on two different networked machines at the same time to test just one part of the networking requirement(s).

The first POSnet beta is expected towards the end of January if all goes to plan. I suggest users wait until it's release to trial it's networking capabilities in a real store situation. :)

[Jonathan Simpson]

Windows NT based OS's don't lock files when DOS programs request them to. (NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP) and as such POS will run using the same file set on two XP machines. However, this is not optimal, as it will use this single file set for all functions, and you will be unable to tell which register a sale came from. If you absolutely must have networking using POS, the only safe way to do it until POS NET is available is to setup a Linux server with Samba, and share out a folder for each register. In each folder is a hard link to the stock table which is located elsewhere on the machine. This creates a shared stock table while keeping all other files seperate. You can also create hard links for things like the journal and some other files, however to do all this you need to know your way around linux.

Jonathan Simpson