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Sharing a computer for some vault .

Sharing a computer for some vault .

Sharing a computer for some vault .

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We know we can use a computer for a just one vault because we can start one pdmsevice per a computer.
We had to use one computer for 3 different group in our company (because of backing up process), and then we installed a pdmserver on one computer in each group and addressed a shared folder (vault folder) on the sever.
Now some our experience :
1) If two users in two different group check in a file in same time , on of them may recieve checkin error
2) If we start check in a big file, usually it's unsuccesful unless we try more and more.
3) Using this vault have a high risk because we had some bad experiences of loosing pdm records data (not sw data)

Best regards.

RE: Sharing a computer for some vault .

DANGER! DANGER!

Having multiple pdmworks vault services pointing to the same vault data location is a recipe for disaster.  The vault service acts as the "traffic cop" for the system, and there can only be one traffic cop - otherwise you will surely end up with corrupted data, lost information, checkin errors and all other kinds of nasty stuff.

Your only option with PDMWorks is to have one pdmworks service running pointing to one vault data location (ideally on the same computer).  You can then setup different projects for each group.

If you set up multiple services due to network speed concerns, you should look at other PDM packages that work off of a centralized database.

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