Problem with saving to NAS Drive

[Adrian Sutton]

Hi Derek

I'm not sure what you mean about the NAS drive being mounted - I am using
Windows and it is just a wi-fi connection which if I use Explorer I can see
as a separate disc.

GNU not seeing it. - When I opened GNU it did not give me the NAS drive as
location in the left hand pane as a place to find a file - it only gave me
the C drive.

If it helps I will try and post a screen dump.

Adrian 

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: 22 July 2013 21:53
To: Adrian Sutton
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Problem with saving to NAS Drive

Hi,

Adrian Sutton <adriansutton97 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>  
> This is by first posting so please excuse any errors.
>  
> I have been using Gnucash for sometime and lkie it. My wife has been 
> using MS Money for many years and has had the occassional problem. I 
> have had some difficulties in resolving these. As she is self employed 
> her accounts are very important. So she has thought about using Gnucash.
>  
> We have just download it and laod her MSMoney files into it. 
>  
> To do this I used the following stages:-
>  
> 1. Export her MSMoney file as a Loose Quicken file to the same 
> loaction as her MSMoney files (A folder on a NAS drive) 2. Started 
> Gnucash and tried to locate the Quicken file.
>  
> This is where we hit problem Gnucash would not 'find' the NAS drive.
>  
> I then copied the Quicken file and pasted it to a folder on the C 
> drive and used this to load into Gnucash. This seemed to work (we did 
> not fully check
> it) as my wife wanted to be sure she could save it on the NAS drive, 
> as she has a couple of laptops depending on her working day. We could 
> not save to the NAS drive as Gnucash could not 'see' it. So for the 
> moment she will stay with MSMoney.
>  
> Please can anyone help - it would make my life a lot easier not having 
> to rescue her accounts again..

I don't understand what you mean that GnuCash wont "find" the NAS drive.
How do you have the drive mounted?  You are right that GnuCash does not use
Gnome-VFS, so just a nautilus mount is not sufficient (i.e. if you go to
Places -> Connect to Server).  Instead you need an actual file-system mount
for GnuCash to see it (e.g., mount -t cifs /host/share
/mountpoint)

> Thanks
>  
> AdrianS

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-derek

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