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

[Robby Workman]

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