I have almost the same setup. Same mapping to a drive I find though, that making an entry into the log on Computer 1 (main unit) does not show up on Computer 2 (slave) immeadately.
I normally use a dedicated Contest Program for contesting. But occasionally, I'll just chase a few friends to give them points and I really don't care about scoring. I also agree that for us multi radio, multi interest ops, a full network server/client shared log would be advantage. I don't know if there would be enough users to make the complicated code writing cost efficient. The full server/clients (note: PLURAL) would also help to save people that pit of the stomach knot of realizing too late they hadn't backed up their database. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "K8FC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DXBASE" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Two radios, two computers same log. > At 07:10 PM 12/10/2006, K8FC wrote: >>Folks, thought I would ask here for a solution before it becomes >>difficult. I want to use the same log here in the station on two >>different radios and two separate computers. I can open the log via the >>network from either computer. (I keep the log on a file server here in >>the shack) I would like to be able to use the log on two different rigs >>but not at the same time no SO2R just using two different rigs. > > This is how I have DX Base set up at my club station, in a roundabout way. > We have two PCs and two radios; one is dedicated to high-power HF, one is > on an FT-847 100W HF/VHF/UHF/Satellite radio. I've fully installed DX Base > on each machine, as if it were just local to that one box, and set up all > radio control, etc. Once each iteration is working perfectly what I do is > decide which is the master station and which is the slave. In our case, > the high-power HF station is the master. That iteration of DX Base runs > normally. The DX Base folder is shared and permissions set to allow the > folder and share to be accessed by the other PC. > > On the slave computer, I've mapped a drive to the DX Base folder, and I > use this mapping for the location of the wb2jsm.mdb file that I use as the > database of reference. So far we've only used one PC active at a time; I > haven't tried to write to the .mdb file from two different computers, so > try that at your own risk. This setup has been extremely reliable so far. > No Q's have ever been lost. When it comes time to backup the log, we > backup the files to the slave PC, so in the event the master's HDD goes > poof, we won't have lost much (plus I keep a copy of it offsite on my home > PC and Flash drive). > > I really hope this app will someday be re-written to allow proper > server-client operation for large club environments. > > > > Cheers, > > Peter, > W2IRT > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected]
