2.4.11 Windows version and using shared folders

[Joseph Campisi III]

I know this is resurrecting a fairly old thread however I wanted to 
mention that this bug still appears to be impacting GnuCash 2.4.11 for 
Windows.

I was able to overcome this problem by remounting my network share and 
assigning the share a drive letter.

Once the network share had a proper drive letter assigned in Windows 7 
everything functioned as intended.

I was able to navigate to the drive, open my files, make changes and save.

Hopefully this helps someone else out until this issue is corrected.

Thanks guys and please keep up the great work.

- Joe




On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Geert Janssens wrote:

> 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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