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POS over an LAN connection

Post by unknown » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:21 am

I am just asking this question as i have some doubts(i am not setting up a store but i am just curious), lets say if i have a LAN connection already, how do i setup the POS system to be able to be accessed on all coms connected to this LAN ?DO i just put the files into the shared folders?



ANyway,

I came accross this site during a search on google and i decided to drop in and have a look.

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Post by Dale Harris » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:29 am

Your network must have mapped drives so, for example, you can refer to the shared drive as F: from any of the computers.

Here are the instructions from the user's guide on how to set up the program to operate over a network...

<center> http://keyhut.com/postip3.htm#network </center>
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Post by unknown » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:13 am

It seems to be a little bit confusing,would you like to revise it and rewrite a simpler, and easiler to understand instructions?

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Post by unknown » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:20 am

Althought I might not need the manual this time ,but someone might need it.

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Post by Dale Harris » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:10 am

unknown,

I tried to make it as simple as possible. Do you have any specific suggestions for making it simplier?
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Post by unknown » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:42 pm

perhaps a step by step list of what to do?

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Post by Andrew » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:03 pm

Unknown,

If someone can't understand Dale's instructions then they have no business networking computers, they should get someone with the appropriate knowledge to do so.

It's incredibly simple, you create a GLOBAL folder on a machine to be your POS server, you share that folder across the network

You map a drive letter to that shared folder on each of your registers, and install a POS folder on each, pointing POSCONFG at the GLOBAL folder on that server.
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Post by unknown » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:07 pm

I have some screenshots of setting up of the programme.Do you need it?

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Post by unknown » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:11 pm

I can't edit my post so i have to double post:

I have some screenshots of setting up of the programme.Do you need it?

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Alright, i have made a powerpoint presentation with some screenshots, but i am not sure does that help.I tried the whole process on my network, and i think it can work.

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Post by Andrew » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:54 pm

1. In order to edit a post, you need to be registered and logged in, which you aren't.

2. Any screenshots would best be sent to Dale, it's his site which contains the HTML version of the manual.

3. We already know the network features of DHPOS works, it's been working for some months now.
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Post by Dale Harris » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:44 pm

Andrew,

Actually the network feature is well over a year old.

Thanks for helping out with this.
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Post by unknown » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:44 am

This site got my attention when i was searching using msn.com and i keyed in something not really related to this and i found this site.I can't remember exactly what was the keyword.

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