Using CMD on a Network
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CMD is designed to be equally at home on a single computer or on a network, whether a simple peer-to-peer network, or one with a dedicated hardware server. CMD’s user license allows you to place it on as many computers in your church's network as you need without additional cost.
However, there are several important things you need to know about CMD & Networking:
•CMD's user names and passwords are built into the data itself, so all password and user name restrictions will be in force on any shared CMD data accessed from any client computer on which CMD is installed.
•To network CMD, the optional remote database server software is required. It makes networking more stable, and in most cases, faster. It also allows for remote connection, meaning you can connect a computer that's off-site, such as a laptop or home desktop. You can have virtually as many remote connections as you wish, so CMD could be used from home, for example, by staff and key lay leaders if you wish. The reason that it is required is that the data engine will only allow multiple computers to access the same data if they are connecting through the same data engine configuration file. And the only way to accomplish that is through the remote database server software. So this is not a Software for Ministry requirement so much as it is a requirement from the data engine provider. However, the cost of the remote database server is modest if you need to connect multiple computers or need remote access.
See Remote Database Server Software for more details.
Please note that we cannot be responsible for helping you set up or troubleshoot your network. That is the work of a local computer expert. For purposes of our instructions here, we assume that you have a network set up and working, that users have been properly added to the network, that your computers are in the same workgroup, and that you are aware of the computer names in your network so that you can map a drive letter properly to the host computer or hardware server.
Here are the topics you'll need to read to properly setup up CMD for use on a network:
Why the Optional Remote Database Server Software Will Helpful to You