Backend problem

[Dave H]

Can you give us the details of XP that works ok from a Ubuntu box - Win XP
Home, Professional, etc and is it also a 64 bit OS like Win 10 that fails ?

Cheers Dave H.


On 24 January 2017 at 15:38, GatwickDP <gatwickdp at britmail.net> wrote:

> Liz- this makes much sense to me and I can accept. The one minor question
> relative- is that he has an old win xp machine that when he creates a
> mirror- that the gnucash files will open from a ubuntu box.
>
> --- edodd at billiau.net wrote:
>
> From: Liz <edodd at billiau.net>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Backend problem
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:07:40 +1100
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:57:08 -0800
> GatwickDP <gatwickdp at britmail.net> wrote:
>
> > All the folders show
> >    and are an exact mirror from what is on the Ubuntu machine.
>
> This is not possible, an "exact mirror". The windows file systems do
> not have the ownerships and permissions of the ext4 or other filesystem
> used in linux systems.
>
> Often when something doesn't work in linux it's a permissions problem.
>
> Bluntly, Win10 is not a solution to this person's problem. It opens up
> huge problems, as the plan is to store a private database on what is
> well reported to be a system which "calls home" repeatedly.
>
> A commercial NAS box, or a home built one, would be a better solution.
>
>
> Liz
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