Sharing Database - Windows/XP (RESTATED)

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Sat Apr 24 16:10:11 EDT 2010


On 23 Apr 2010 at 12:41, Phillip Richcreek said:

> Thanks to all who have replied to this so far. The thread is getting a
> bit tangled, so I'd like to restate the question, incorporating
> information that was elicited by and/or stated from your responses and
> my subsequent replies. If anyone has any further suggestion, I'd
> appreciate it.
[...]
> The DELL system has granted "full control" permission (W/XP
> terminology) for the Account Database directory to all users on both
> DELL and HP. (In this context all users means, not specific,
> individual users, but all users as a group.) I've verified that I can
> write a new file,  update an existing file, and create a new
> directory, from HP into the directory on the DELL system.

A couple of other straws I'd try clutching at:

1. "save as" an XML file and see if you can open that across the network. 

I'm assuming (I haven't tried the unstable version) that the same .LCK 
file naming convention is used for both kinds of accountfile. Right now 
the assumption seems to be that the "can't obtain the lock" error is 
because Gnucash can't create the .LCK file, but there just might be some 
other mechanism failing.

2. I see you have spaces in the directory and file names so
2a. Map a driveletter to the directory, and try to access the database 
through that instead of the UNC name.

2b. Rename the database so it doesn't have a space in its filename.



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