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Working with a copy of RMS

I have 2 single copies of RMS 1.2. The first copy is running in our store and until now I had not used my second copy. I had use the Manager and Admin to logon to our store.

Today I thought it would be much faster to have a copy of our store db running on my local PC. I just wanted to use this for testing and maybe even use it for my Quickbooks interface.

I setup myself as and additional cashier in the store db before I restored the db on my local PC. Well, everything is nice and fast when I logon now but I have lost my "connection" to the POS.

I had thought that I would use my store cashier number when I want to connect to the store db and my new cashier number when connecting to the local copy. However, I cannot figure out what I have to do to have access to either store or local db.

Any comments are greatly appreciated.

Reply to
Gerd
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When you configure the database access in administrator to point to your local database, you loose the connection to your pos database. You would need to continually change the setup in administrator to go back and forth.

Reply to
Steve Vold

That was what I already tried. I selected the remote server and logged on. However, when I go into an item list I have the results instantly, thus, I don't think I am connected to the remote database. As I have only a 384kb line to our store the normal access to any data on the POS takes quite a bit longer. At the moment the response times I see are just too fast to be from the POS.

Is there a way I can tell in the Manager which database I am connected to? I see the server and db in the status bar of the administrator but nowhere on the managers screen.

Reply to
Gerd

One more thing I found. I logged on to the (remote) POS in Administrator. Then I started the POS which shows that I am working in a copy of the POS database (I had added the word copy to the company information to ensure I know when I am on which POS). So even it I set the administrator to connect to the correct POS the POS itself and manager still connect to my local db.

Reply to
Gerd

In SO Manager, go to Help/About - it will show you the server name and database name that Manager has connected to.

In SO Administrator, File/Connect DOES NOT change the database that Manager or POS will connect to on that machine. Only File/Configuration will affect that. File/Connect allows you to connect SO Administrator to different databases to perform Admin functions like Backup, Reindex or perform queries.

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Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]

Thanks Glenn, that did the trick.

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Gerd

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