Quote:Mark (dumb question of the day): if I have a "Sales Team" server, a "Client Support" server and an "Admin" server and they all need to access a common database such as "Clients", how do I point them to this common database given they are pointing to their specific applications ?
Louis
The rootdirs.ini file can have multiple directories specified as entries. So you can create a rootdirs.ini file for Sales that looks like this:
c:\Sesame\Data\SalesOnly
c:\Sesame\Data\Common
And one for Manufacturing that looks like this:
c:\Sesame\Data\ManufacturingOnly
c:\Sesame\Data\Common
That would give Sales exclusive access to the applications in the "SalesOnly" directory, and shared access to the applications in the "Common" directory. Sales cannot get to the "ManufacturingOnly" directory and Manufacturing cannot get to the "SalesOnly" directory, but both can get to the "Common" directory.
It may be wise to start another server with c:\Sesame\Data in its rootdirs.ini file, that can, thereby, access all of the directories - for administrative purposes.