2.4.0 Windows version and using shared folders

[Iñaki Grao]

Hello Geert, thank you for your answer

I think that is not the problem. I experienced that problem before (with
Windows XP), but in this case that's not the problem. In fact, the share
(maped to drive letter F:) is always available to any other application, and
trying to force a mount as you propose does not solve the problem with
GnuCash 2.4  (GnuCash 2.2 have no problem in my case, with same PC and
environment).

As nobody tells that GnuCash 2.4 is *not* able for some reason to access a
Windows shared folder (Samba shared folder in my case) I understand that it
*is* able, so the problem resides somewhere in my environment. Am I right?


Thank you

                    Iñaki



2011/2/24 Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>

> On dinsdag 22 februari 2011, Iñaki Grao wrote:
> > Russell,
> >
> > I'm using GnuCash running on Windows 7. The problem is that the shared
> > folders maped to a network drive are not available to GnuCash's "open
> file"
> > window, as seen on following image:
> > http://img217.imageshack.us/i/gnucash242.png/   (F: is maped to
> "finanzas"
> > shared folder, and that drive is not available to GnuCash, while it is
> > available to other windows applications).
> >
> > I've tried GnuCash 2.4.2 on a Windows XP machine, with no problem at all.
> >
> > Any clue?
> >
> I wonder if the problem is that the share is not mounted yet (even though
> Windows shows it in the list of available drives). I remember having
> similar
> issues with a commercial database like that.
>
> So what happens if you first double click on the "Finanzas" shared folder
> in
> your explorer window to explicitly mount the shared folder, and only then
> select open in GnuCash ?
>
> Geert
>