accessing GC file on a network folder

[Colin Law]

On 22 July 2016 at 06:48, __ <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry... erorr message is"  "No suitable backend was found for
> file://\\172.20.14.21\Folder\file.gnucash."
>
> tried those hot fixes:
>
> - using  a  shorcut - negative
> - mapping network  drive - negative

It should certainly work if you map the network drive.

What error are you getting having mapped it?

Colin

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:43 PM, __ <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> W7, GC 6.7.7 here. Can it be  it's impossible to open  a  gnu cash file
>> living  on  a fileserver  (when  the path to  that  includes \\ (as does on
>> any windows  machine?)
>>
>> Any workaround except saving the file locally?
>>
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