sage on mac - centralised data?

realBabelfish · 10 Oct 2017 at 13:38

Hi guys, this is a Mac question and im useless with macs

basically client wants 2 macs in 2 separate locations to access Sage accounts data. now i know i could use a cloud service for windows but not sure on the macs.

any ideas? can 2 different users access a cloud service to store the data somehow?

ChrisD. · 10 Oct 2017 at 14:17

Most likely, yes. Which cloud service?

realBabelfish · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:08

i have no idea. i dont know whats available on macs. turns out sage doesnt work on mac anyway - lol.

ChrisD. · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:08

You can run up a virtual machine or bootcamp it.

Most popular cloud solutions will work with mac.

realBabelfish · 11 Oct 2017 at 13:49

ChrisD. said:
You can run up a virtual machine or bootcamp it.

Most popular cloud solutions will work with mac.

oh god, not with these 2 Luddites, thats just too much lol.

HecFam · 11 Oct 2017 at 13:58

This was a couple of years ago but i worked with a company who used Sage via Parallels on Mac. Sage was the only windows software they used and the Parallels windows VM was in coherence mode so it didn't look like anything was windows was running, just OSX.

As for the cloud environment, I was always told that it "wasn't recommended" to run a sage database via a cloud service (or even using a vpn to the local site) as it can cause corruption if 2 computers are trying to access the same database. It was always fine to store Sage backups in cloud storage, but not the live database. Then again that could have changed since i last used it.

Sage do now offer a Cloud service but even then i think it's for backups rather than live data.

My other idea would be to have a terminal services server they could both RDP into to access the sage software which is linked to the database locally.

realBabelfish · 11 Oct 2017 at 15:02

yeah, i was thinking something like teamviewer on both machines and do it that way? i now that works on macs (i bloody hate using them lol)

HecFam · 11 Oct 2017 at 16:15

That would work as long as both users don't need to access the data at the same time as you can only use 1 teamviewer session at a time if there is only 1 windows PC. But yeah, Teamviewer certainly works on Mac.

The only thing i'd be careful with is the free version of Teamviewer is for noncommercial use, so they may clock on if you are looking to use it unpaid.