Problem with saving to NAS Drive

[LOOPING, Richard]

On 24-07-2013 02:22, David Carlson wrote:
> 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
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Hi all,
new to the list, and my first post here :)
Happy user of gnuCash on Windows for 3 years.

I had exactly the same problem as the original poster, and seems not 
many Windows users here:

The open/save dialog box in gnuCash does not have the option to browse 
network, unlike the native Windows dialog box. This is a bit confusing.

To open/save to a network drive, you first need to "mount" the drive (so 
it has a drive letter).  Only then will it show up in the list on the left.
It means you need to "mount" the drive before using the dialog box, eg. 
using Windows Explorer. It that can be done while gnuCash is running, 
but not from within gnuCash.

I think it is too much work for the developers to change the dialog box 
to native... I mean: once you are used to it, its no problem.

Richard