help

[David T.]

There was also a discussion about this a while back. Derek told one person that ORBit requires connectivity (see http://readlist.com/lists/gnucash.org/gnucash-user/2/11287.html)

Perhaps that's the problem? Derek specifically noted it being outside Gnucash purview...

David

--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> Subject: Re: help
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org, "Maurice Carson" <carbaxca3 at q.com>
> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 1:04 PM
> On Sunday 4 April 2010, Maurice
> Carson wrote:
> > have just installed gnucash BUT it would appear that
> to use it I ALWAYS
> >  have to have an internet connection. Why should
> this be. is all the info
> >  saved on a server somewhere
> > I thought that this was a stand alone program
> > thanks
> > 
> GnuCash doesn't really need an internet connection, but it
> seems to use a 
> network connection to localhost. Localhost is a special
> network connection 
> from a computer to itself. It never leaves the computer but
> is treated in all 
> respects as a network connection anyway. Some firewalls
> block localhost 
> connections. If that happens, gnucash apparently can't
> communicate with gconf 
> a configuration utility used by gnucash.
> 
> There is a bug report for this issue:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510720
> But no solution so far.
> 
> If this bug is what you experience, you can work around it
> by making sure your 
> firewall software allows network access from the local
> machine to the local 
> machine (weird as that may sound). Look for the term
> localhost.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
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