sharing the gnucash database via nfs

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:29:57 -0400 Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:

> Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb at nyu.edu> writes:
>> On allan the symlink had essentially no effect: typing
>>    gnucash
>> results in my being asked the usual new-user questions.
>
> It sounds like you resolved the file-opening issue, but just for
> completeness…
>
> The state about the last-file-opened and first-time-use is stored in gconf,
> which is local to each user account.  So, when just typing `gnucash` on the
> second box, it found nothing in the gconf registry, and both a) thought you
> were a new user and b) didn't know what the last opened file was.
>
> There are other settings also stored in gconf that really should instead be
> in the account file, so it might be that you have different configurations
> between the two systems.

Thanks for the clear explanation.

allan