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I use Sage on a small peer - to - peer network. My database is shared so that another PC can use the database.

A few weeks ago, the pc holding my copy of sage died and I had to purchase a new one and reinstall Sage and the db from the backup. However, the client pc cannot now access the database - when I fire up Sage, it gives me an error along the the lines of "database \\server\acounts cannot be found".

I presume that previously the appropriate folder was shared and my client pc's copy of Sage was pointed to that folder. 2 questions;
1) Which folder should I be sharing? (I'd presumed it the c:\program files\sages\accounts\accdata)
2) Presumably, there is a file/config somewhere on the client pc that directs it to the location of the database. Any ideas what this may be?

Thanks in advance

1/ You need to share the parent of the ACCDATA directory normally this is the Sage Program installation directory, however, you can share any directory above that directory as long as the path points to the parent of the ACCDATA directory.

Note: Earlier versions of Sage did not like UNC path names, they needed to have mapped drive letters (Reports didn't work otherwise).

2/ There is a file, it is in your local line50 installation directory it is called company and it has no file extension, open it with notepad (or other text editor eg the vastly superior notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm ) you will find it contains lines of text one for each of your companies (one if you have a single comapny) and each line is the path to the parent of the ACCDATA directory containing the data

Inserting the full path to the ACCDATA directory works fine for Line 50 but again mucks up the report writer.

Thanks very much, I'll give that a go