My thought was:

store the database in the cloud and feeding it from various win 7 machines while at home or somewhere else. Chosen cloud provider www.cloudme.com was not the best one I found out in the meantime...

I changed to www.mydisk.se and upload succeeded. However, DVDP tells me that it cannot find the file users.dat but it is there, I checked it.

Any ideas?

yes, you're right regarding the proxy! 

After all those attempts with the cloud storage and accessing my NAS from outside of my home network I think I have tested enough to say that it will not work as I imaginated.

However, if anyone has more ideas let me know! 

Werner

Quoting jobbanobba:

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store the database in the cloud and feeding it from various win 7 machines ...

Not sure what you mean by "feeding it". DVDP is a single user system. If you think that multiple machines (users) will be updating a shared database concurrently, forget it. You are not going to get a muti-user shared DVD database for $30. That is a commercial solution. DVDP so far, has been designed to be a personal use system.

Again, if you simply want to access a master database from anywhere, anytime - just leave it on your NAS and remotely login to a machine that sits on your home network. Or use Windows Home Server. I really don't understand the need for a "cloud" in your case.

Fair enough. I appreciate the honest answer. We all enjoy learning new things and I respect that but I was feeling uncomfortable that you had a problem that I didn't understand, and therefore I couldn't help. Good luck - I'll check back sometimes to see how it is going, and get the benefit of what you have learned.

Very clever indeed!

Am I missing something here? Why don't you just keep your db in USB memory stick? Why make things so complicated?

Surely if you are using a NAS this is the opposite to cloud storage? As you store things in the cloud to get away from running your own centralised storage system.

I do something similar to what it sounds like you were trying to achieve in dvd profiler but with a recipe database progam.

I have a free dropbox account and set up folders linked to it on my home and work pcs. I then put the recipe database files into the matching folders on each pc and point the program to them there.

Every time I add a recipe on my home pc dropbox automatically updates the databse copies in the cloud and then in turn notifies the client on my work pc to pull down new copies next time it connects. This way the database at work stays perfectly in sync with the one on my laptop and I can print out a recipe at work to buy ingredients on the way home.

I'm sure the same could work for the dvd profiler database, keeping the program in sync over multiple computers and maintaining a cloud backup without the need for any additional hardware.

That said, the my profler page effectively is clous storage of your database. All dropbox would do is automate the update process.

Hi,

I had a DropBox account, too, but cancelled it and changed to Google Drive.

I don't know if it would be possible to set up a DVD Profiler database in Google Drive due to sync versus real time.

However, I was able to test my solution recently in the holiday flat and it worked like a charm. Back home I connected the little NAS to my home network and everything's fine. So that's my very private little cloud storage. 

Werner