Multiple Users Sharing WinCE Device

Is it possible for multiple users to share the same WinCE device?
One of our business requirements is to allow users to share the same WinCE device, example, one device shared for an entire branch office.
Common scenario, UserA syncs and modifies data on local on device, then UserB syncs devices obtaining their own data partition/snapshot, and modifies data without effecting UserA data.
In my testing, my initial sync of UserA works fine, but when I can try to sync UserB, I get the error 'connection does not exist'. However, if I delete the database created by UserA, I can successfully sync UserB.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I guessed that you were using subsetting. This however does mean that lite will detect that there is a new user for the device, and send a complete rebuild of all of the data. This actually links up with the next issue
If you have 5 (or 10) users in a department, then if the snapshots are defined for each user, then each time the user changes, your initial sync to get thier data will do a complete refresh. this can mean a lot of data, not normally too bad in the comms time, but can take a long time in the processing phase. If you have the snapshot at department level, then the first sync to create the database would indeed be 5/10 times longer (this would be a one off hit), but you could then have all snapshots set to fast refresh, and only smaller updates would come through each time, for everyone, rather than complete refreshed all of the time.
you will see that when you sync a new user a directory with that user name get created under the orace directory, but i have never seen anything in these. for our PDA's the database gets created in (by priority order) 1 - SD card, 2 - built in storage, 3 - Orace directory. Removable card is a little slower, but have the advantage of being able to up the storage capacity if needed. The application we are just finishing off has 83 objects, with around 60,000 records in total and a database size around 15 Mb
concli has a table system.c$client_preferences, with (normally) two records in it. (column dev_owner values 0 and 1). 0 will have the user used when the database were created, and is the default for device manager and msync. 1 will normally be the same, but could be different if you have subsequently synced as a different user. NOTE you can override the user in msync, but NOT in device manager. This may be your problem.
Try (after making sure that device manager is not running) removing these records (at least the type 0), and syncing. This could save removing the databases

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