2.4.0 Windows version and using shared folders

[Geert Janssens]

On donderdag 24 februari 2011, Iñaki Grao wrote:
> 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,
I would expect it to be able to do so. I don't have access to a GnuCash 2.4 
setup, so I can't verify that myself. I can only tell it works on Windows XP 
here.

> so the problem resides somewhere in my environment. Am I right?
> 
Well, not necessarily. If GnuCash 2.2.x works fine and GnuCash 2.4 doesn't, it 
may well be a problem with GnuCash 2.4. The file dialog was redesigned in 2.4 
to accomodate the new SQL backends. Perhaps something went wrong there. In 
both cases though GnuCash depends on some Gnome libraries to provide the file 
selection bits. But I think a different version of those libraries is used for 
2.2 and 2.4. That could also be the cause.

What you could try as a workaround, is to type the location you are looking 
for in the text field near the top of the window.
If you enter "F:\<rest-of-path-to-your-data-file>", can you then open a file 
from the shared directory ?

Geert