Sharing a Smart Pix Database on a Network

Smart Pix Manager fully supports the sharing of its database across a network, but you will need to specify the database setting, 'Allow databases to be shared,' under Database Options on all copies of Smart Pix Manager which are accessing the shared database

You will want to consider the following details:

1.  Access to Files

Naturally every user of the database will also need to have read access to the images and multimedia files that the database references, so these will need to be in a shared folder with a mapped drive letter.  Also you should have the shared folder mapped to the same letter on all systems, so that, for example, if the database refers to the file N:\Images\CompanyLogo.gif then the image can be found in N:\Images on all systems (If this is not possible you will need to use wildcards or store the files within the database).

2.  Read/Write Access

There are two ways you can control read/write access to a shared database:

• Using File Permissions set the user-rights of the database files as read-only

• Set the Read-Only option on all copies of Smart Pix Manager that do not have write access

Note: You can quickly enact the key options for network access by running Smart Pix and click Ctrl+Shift+D

Also:

• Database Options
• Database Performance Settings