2.4.0 Windows version and using shared folders

[Geert Janssens]

On donderdag 24 februari 2011, Iñaki Grao wrote:
> By the way, Should I report this 2.4 behaviour to the buglist? Does anybody
> else experienced this behaviour? (GnuCash 2.4.0 and 2.4.2 crashing until it
> is ran as Administrator, then it is able to launch again wit no "run as
> Administrator" label)
> 
Yes, please file this as a bug.

And thanks for finding this problem. We will have to figure out now what 
initial configurations the Administrator can do that an ordinary user can't.

Geert

> Regards
> 
>                     Iñaki
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/2/24 Iñaki Grao <injaki at gmail.com>
> 
> > Hello Geert,
> > 
> > I think I've found  the cause (althoug not the root cause) and a
> > workaround for the problem. Your sugestion of type the full path helped
> > me to find it (it didn't recognize the path using the drive letter, but
> > using the UNC was fine).
> > 
> > The cause (not the root cause):
> > I forgot to mention that GnuCash 2.4 executable was running as
> > Administrator, since first launches crashed (the process arose for two
> > seconds in Windows Task manager, then gone). Running as Administrator
> > seems to isolate in some way the executable so as to prevent wrong use,
> > and that's why network drives were not visible.
> > Removing the "Run as Administrator" label to the executable solved the
> > problem, and this time the application ran ok.
> > 
> > I repeated the instalation on another Windows 7 machine with similar
> > environment, just to test it, and I saw the same behavior:
> > -First (several) launches of GnuCash 2.4.2 crashed, with no error on
> > GnuCash log (except a warning "WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got
> > 2633 bytes. The identifiers might not be very random" that always arose
> > and arises on my GnuCash log)
> > -Running GnuCash 2.4.2 as Administrator finally launched the executable,
> > but then maped network drives were not visible on "open" window.
> > -Closing GnuCash, removing the "run as administrator" label from the
> > executable, and running it again solved the problem: it launched ok, and
> > then the network drives were visible on "open" window.
> > 
> > 
> > I really don't know why GnuCash 2.4.0 and 2.4.2 crashes with no error
> > message on my two Windows 7 machines, since version 2.2.9 didn't show
> > that behaviour before. And I don't know why running just once as
> > Administrator solves that crash.
> > I hope this workaround helps somebody else.
> > 
> > Thank you for your help.
> > 
> >                     Iñaki
> > 
> > 2011/2/24 Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> > 
> >> On donderdag 24 februari 2011, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> Hmm, I meant to say "I don't have access to a Windows 7 system" here...
> >> 
> >> Geert
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