Backend problem

[David T.]

Since it sounds as if you are trying to use your Win10 machine as a glorified backup storage location, as long as the file can be moved to a new machine and loaded, what does it matter if you can run it remotely from an ubuntu machine?


> On Jan 23, 2017, at 4:35 AM, GatwickDP <gatwickdp at britmail.net> wrote:
> 
>   I must be missing something in your suggestion. The original ubantu
>   computers that are being used have zero problems with opening any of
>   the gnucasf files on them, so apparently the database engine has to be
>   correct. Take any of the ubantu machines that have gnucah app on them
>   and they can open the files that are local to that machine or on
>   another networked ubantu or win xp machine. The exact same files are on
>   the win 10 machine and only on that machine does the attempt from a
>   networked ubantu trying to open the files on the win10  do we get the
>   backend error. The files have to be fine when as a test i open then
>   with an app native to win 10 and the win 10 app can open any of the
>   data files of gnucash on any of the other networked ubantu or winp
>   machines . The only problem is that I open gnucash on a ubanu computer
>   and by the network try to open the data files that are on win 10. Other
>   machines See everything fine on win 10 - any other file from any other
>   program will open. Only problem is the gnucash. We are trying to use
>   win10 as a mirror so that if one of the machines holding a number of
>   files and gnucash being only one set, we can just mount the drive from
>   win 10 and go down the road.
>   --- ml-node+s1415818n4689095h13 at n4.nabble.com wrote:
>   From: "David Carlson-4 [via GnuCash]"
>   <ml-node+s1415818n4689095h13 at n4.nabble.com>
>   To: Jazzwineman <gatwickdp at britmail.net>
>   Subject: Re: Backend problem
>   Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:11:41 -0800 (PST)
>   It sounds like you are keeping your data files in one of the database
>   formats but you did not install the database engine in the Ubuntu box
>   that
>   gives you the error message.
>   There is more than one way to solve that problem.  The easiest is to
>   switch
>   to the default compressed XML data format (.gnucash).   The other is to
>   install the correct database engine for your data type.  I have never
>   done
>   the latter myself and the wiki was just reorganized so I cannot find
>   the
>   reference to look at for instructions.  Hopefully someone who uses a
>   database format in Linux will tell us how to do that.
>   David C