Problem with saving to NAS Drive

[David Carlson]

On Tuesday, 7/23/2013 2:27 PM, Adrian Sutton wrote:
> 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
>
You did not say which version of windows you are using or how you are
attaching the external drive. 
I don't know exactly what a NAS drive is.
If it has a drive letter GnuCash should have no trouble finding it. 
However, if it does not have a drive letter assigned, you may need to
manually assign a drive letter before GnuCash can find it. 
Network drives are treated somewhat differently in each version of
windows, I guess because they can't seem to get it right.
David C