Sage 50 Accounts 2009 Won't Open?

[bjblackmore]

Hi,

I have a client running Sage 50 Accounts 2009. They are only a small business and have 1 small Windows 2003 server, with 2 client machines, Windows XP Pro & Windows XP Home (a PC from their home). Sage 50 Accounts is installed on the Server, which is where the data stored. The 2 clients also have Sage 50 Accounts installed, and have a drive (s:) mapped to the company data on the server.

The Windows XP Pro client works perfectly. However, when I pointed Sage to the company data for the first time on the Windows XP Home client, I got an error message saying: "Report Designer Problem: Unable to register data source". Now, whenever I open sage, I get the login prompt, so I enter the 'manager' username, and login, but Sage doesn't even open, everything just closes, and task manager shows all Sage processes exit/close/crash.

I've tried adding & removing the ODBC data sources manually, and reinstalling the ODBC data using the proper Sage installer. But nothing helps.

Can anyone help resolve this issue? Is it simply because its running on Windows XP Home? Will Sage run on XP Home, or is it not supported?

Thanks

Ben

[Site4]

Sage 50 runs on XP home just fine. Whether XP home works in your 2003 domain environment is a different question (and the answer is no).

I'd reinstall everything on the domain/ lan and get that working again, then tell us how you're connecting the XPh / remote worker..

[brucedenney]

Could be that the initial config was wrong, just check the "company" file has the right path in it.