business contact manager - share database

[Guest]

I have 2 PCs and want to share Business Contacts between them. The database
is hosted on the XP Professional machine and has the administrator option to
set up Users under the Business Tools menu list.

My other machine an XP Home Edition does not have the Share Database option
listed under the Business Tools menu. Why NOT?

How can I link the two machines?

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Hi ACM

do you have the update for the BCM installed?

The BCM is only shareable with the update version:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD010798691031.aspx

 

[Guest]

Xp Home cannot be used to host secure servers (e.g. sql databases). That's
simply a Microsoft product differenciator. Xp home is for personal home user,
and Xp professional is inteneded for businesses. Xp Home only supports
connections as user guest--good enough for sharing printers and games, and
easier to configure. BCM allowing connections by user guest would mean any
user would be able to connect to BCM databases on Xp Home. To BCM and other
business applications, that's simply not secure enough. There are other
differences between Xp Home and Xp Professional; this is one that affects BCM.

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov]

Xp Home cannot be used to host secure servers (e.g. sql databases). That's
simply a Microsoft product differenciator. Xp home is for personal home user,
and Xp professional is inteneded for businesses. Xp Home only supports
connections as user guest--good enough for sharing printers and games, and

Wrong.

The NTFS security tools are present on Windows XP Home, but they are
well-hidden. MSDE will certainly install on it. If you do not believe me,
open a command prompt and type cacls. Cacls is the command like NTFS ACL
management utility.

Secondarily, username-based sharing is enabled after File and Printer
Sharing wizard runs. This was changed in SP2 for higher security.

The cause is more likely to be BCM V1 being installed on the other machine
rather than BCM V2.

The only key difference between Home and Pro is the ability to join the
domain. The underlying security architecture is the same. I can make XP Pro
behave like Home and vice versa. Hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete at XP Home login script
sometime. ;-)

 

[Luther]

I didn't say MSDE wouldn't install. It will, and BCM will create
private databases.

What BCM won't do, as long as it detects it's on Xp Home, is share the
db via the sharing wizard.

V1 did not have sharing.

 

[Guest]

Oliver & Leonid,
Many thanks. The obvious answer is often the right one. I had infact just
bought 2 new packages and had them installed. You were quite correct - one
of the packages was an old version. Problem solved!
Regards
Andrew

 

[Guest]

So Leonid,
What should I do to be able to sync BCM between to home xp based computers?