Backend problem

[Dave H]

I think you said Ubuntu is 32 bit and Win 10 64 bit - this may be the crux
of the matter.  You may need to try using a 32 bit or 64 bit OS at both
ends ?

Whats with the Ubuntu 4 year end of life - I dual boot Win 10 and Ubuntu
16.04 and am not aware of any 4 year end of life.  Just assumed I'd keep
upgrading every time they pump out a new version :-)

Cheers Dave H.

On 24 January 2017 at 00:16, GatwickDP <gatwickdp at britmail.net> wrote:

> This is for a client. His office is currently using ubantu. He would have
> liked to continue with ubantu, but with a 4 yr. lifespan that creates a
> problem that he does not want to deal with. Since he makes use of Power
> Term as well and powerterm along with tiny term is not creating future
> access for their product via the Linux or Mac route, that leaves him in a
> position to do a turnover to the horrid windows platform. This is the first
> of these machines that he is testing on what he normally does. In this case
> he wants to create a backup to a machine and if another one goes down then
> he can simply mount this one and go on as if nothing has happened. I
> understand this may be convoluted- however in his filed he has the largest
> medical practice in DFW and makes the most of any MD in his specialty in
> DFW and has about 55 computers spread over 3 offices and home. So since he
> will be moving slowly to Win 10 architecture- this is what he wants. So
> back to the question- the only scenario that
>   Gnucash is not working correctly is when from a ubantu machine- you open
> gnucash and pull the files from the mounted win10 machine and get the the
> backend error message.
>
> --- sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> From: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> To: gatwickdp at britmail.net
> Cc: "David Carlson-4 [via GnuCash]" <ml-node+s1415818n4689095h13@
> n4.nabble.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Backend problem
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:52:49 +0500
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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