Configuring Tally on Network : Simple as 123

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

ApniTally reader Raju, Shamshad, Austin and many others have faced problems in Tally while working on Network environment. Working in tally multiuser i.e. gold gives you facility to work on same data with many users on it. Smooth working can ease the work load and get the things done faster. Few basic requirements and configuration can lead to easy working in Tally. Smooth working needs few requirements. Lets see these 1 2 3 steps.
1. A separate Tally server
2. A fast and smooth network
3. A good Tally Configuration.

Tally Server
When ever we talk about server we imagine a machine which is big on computing and having high memory and storage space etc. But in case of Tally a Tally server need not to fulfill these requirements. In case of Tally server an ordinary computer can do the job, as on server not much computing is done. Tally server usually does the duty of holding the data and serving the license file only.It doesn't do any computing on it self as tally seldom gets loaded on server.
So we can give an ordinary desktop the responsibility of tally server. It should be well connected with other computers in organization and should have reasonable memory for working. Normal server in the company which may be doing some other duties like hosting, domain controlling etc can be avoided if needed as it would be busy with it's own work.

Network
Proper network should be there with cat5 or cat6 cables. Switches should be used instead of hubs as they are fast and intelligent . Preferably it should be on TCP/IP protocol and every machine should have an ip address on its LAN card with one common IP Pool. If tally server is having IP as 192.168.0.1 then nodes should have the IP as 192.168.0.2 and so on. The work group on all computers should be same and machines can have separate names. The name of the tally server can be TallyServer and the work group name can be organization name e.g. cts or tallyacademy etc.

Configuration:Server
Configuration at server end as well as nodes is very important. First of all while installing tally on server the check mark for server should be ticked. Then Tally license on server should be active i.e. Tally on the server should show the serial no and Tally Gold Multi user should be there on right hand top corner of Tally.
It is advisable that you make the folder name according to its version instead of making a default folder like tally only. If version Tally9 is there then the folder should be Tally9.
Share the data folder and give it a name like tally9data. Sharing can be done right clicking the folder and choosing sharing and security. Be sure to allow users to modify the files.

Configuration: Nodes First of all install Tally in Tally9 folder in C drive. Modifications are needed in tally.ini file at nodes. Open the tally.ini the configuration and setting file in notepad and find the line TallyLicenseServer. If there are semi colons bore this line then remove the semicolons. This line has following syntex :-
TallyLicenseServer= 192.168.0.1:9000
or
TallyLicenseServer=\\TallyServer:9000
Here 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of the Tally server machine and 9000 is the default port at which license is running. You can replace the IP address with computer name e.g. TallyServer. The path of data folder should be also defined, for this find the line ;; Specify location of Data files Data =. By default it would have syntex like Data = C:\Tally9\Data i.e. the folder where tally has been installed on nodes. It should be changed to new location on network i.e. \\Tally9Data the name of the folder which we have given while sharing on server. So the data line becomes as follows
Data = \\Tally9Data

These are the general setting which are needed for tally to run on network. If you company data is huge and experiencing difficultly then more network friendly setting can be used as described in my earlier post on network settings.


Posted by TallyHelper at 5:09 AM  
8 comments
Anonymous said...

thank you for our good advise i have one problem i use multi user tally on network i map the tally data folder on other computers(node) whenever i start my computer(node) i cannot direct use the tally .tally cannot find the path of my maping drive. but after opaning the map drive in my computers the tally will get the path of maping drive. whenever i open first time tally i cannot get the path of maping drive .i must go to my computer and click on the maping drive then the tally show the select company

7:07 AM  
Anonymous said...

can i connect a tally server 192.168.0.1 from
192.168.1.2 ?

now i cant connect

if u hav answer pls mail me

onenonlyshely@gmail.com

1:04 PM  
susanta said...

can i connect a tally server 192.168.1.1 from
192.168.2.207 ?

now i cant connect

if u hav answer pls mail me

10:17 AM  
Ayan Bishnu said...

Its usally not posssible to connect since the IP address you have mentioned belong to 2 different class of networking.

If u are using tally in a same location change the IP address 192.168.2.207 to 192.168.1.221

5:15 AM  
Anonymous said...

am using tally 9 multiuser
now getting error "Tally License server ver 3.0 expected" and goes to Education mode.
any idea?

1:40 PM  
Anonymous said...

my tally multi user is working but the node shows educational why ?

11:55 AM  
Aneesh Sankar said...

What about configuring Tally on Client/Server(domain) based network?

There is a problem while accessing the "Data" folder over network.!!

Check and give help for others if possible..

i.e. If using PCs installed with Windows XP and one PC holds the license server and others are clines of the same workgroup, then a simple network folder share ("data" folder on the server PC) is enough.

But in the case I pointed above, if the server is a server class computer installed only with Windows Server OS (windows 2003 or later) then the normal folder share won't work. (In Domain architecture with ADS).

10:08 AM  
Hari Haran said...

to integrate any application

with tally

visit : www.direct2tally.com

12:11 PM  

Post a Comment

Try this Also

Grab this swicki from eurekster.com


All names, trademarks and logos used in this site are property of their respoective owners. Site Developed and Maintained by CyberTec Solutions