Gnucash 2.4.0 (Windows)

[Derek Atkins]

On Thu, December 30, 2010 7:19 pm, Mortimer wrote:
> On 12/29/2010 17:19, J. Alex Aycinena wrote:
>> I, too, wanted to jump on the bandwagon and be outraged that some dumb
>> developer had actually done something so stupid as require internet
>> connectivity for Gnucash to operate. You can imagine my disappointment
>> when I actually tried it and found that it works fine without one. But
>> then, I'm on linux not windows and that might explain the difference.
>> Also, maybe it needs to be connected to install but not to operate. I
>> don't know because I haven't actually tried those two. I wonder if the
>> prior posters actually tried it themselves.
>>
>
>
> Well as the person who started this thread , I can assure you that I
> would not have posted the question unless gnucash was doing EXACTLY what
> I stated.
>
> I am running windows xp home (32bit). and if I tell my firewall (comodo)
> to block gnucash from the internet it fails to load at all. I do not
> know how it runs under the 'nix systems or other versions of windows.
> And no it is not trying to install, it is actually RUNNING.

Have you checked whether it's actually trying to get out onto the Internet
or just accessing the local host via 127.0.0.1?

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-derek