[GNC] Problem with saving to NAS Drive

[David Carlson]

I just noticed the word hostname.  My isp  automatically created a domain
containing the word local which causes linux computers to turn off bonjour,
thus preventing finding local hosts by hosname.  I am forced to use ip
addresses when mounting network drives.

David Carlson

On Mon, May 27, 2019, 1:45 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Too many details are missing.  I know that in Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 it is
> necessary to use a file manager to mount and sign in to my NAS before I can
> open or save a GnuCash data file.
>
> On other OS's details vary.  Any incorrect words were substituted by the
> spell checker.
>
> David Carlson
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019, 8:06 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> Nothing has changed on the gnucash side in this respect between version
>> 3.3 or
>> 3.5 that I'm aware of.
>>
>> You didn't state what OS you are on. Is that on Windows as well ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geert
>>
>> On zaterdag 18 mei 2019 19:08:57 CEST John Underwood wrote:
>> > I came accross this problem today after several years of using GNUCash
>> with
>> > files housed on Network drives (Not usually NAS but drives on other
>> network
>> > computers). In fact, I suspect but cannot be completely certain, that I
>> have
>> > never stored a GNUCash file on, or retreieved one from, a local drive.I
>> > found a workaround for the problem, using two very simple procedures:
>> > Uninstall and Install. In uninstalled GNUCash 3.5 and installed GGNU
>> Cash
>> > 3.3 (From which I had "upgraded" earlier - 3.4 showed the same
>> > problem).Now I am back to where I have been for several years. The
>> > impossible today appears to have been the normal in the very recent
>> past. I
>> > can now open a network GNUCash file and GNUCash opens and displaye
>> it.This
>> > is not a solution! I am reliant on a version of GNUCash which is no
>> longer
>> > supported. Apart from other problems which will not be solved for me,
>> there
>> > is the security problem. My tolerance of errors in security is very low.
>> > Unless this problem can be dealt with in the near future, I will have to
>> > consider tha possibility of an alternative accounting package (with the
>> > effort involved in coversion to it) simply because GNUCash, in spit of
>> its
>> > excellent qualities, does not meet my essential operational
>> requirements.
>> > And that, in spite of the additional costs of a non-open source
>> > product.This is not a uestion of a conflict between Windows and Unix.
>> The
>> > issue is concerned with the standards for file (and path) naming which
>> have
>> > long included a hostname. It is my contention that GNUCash was
>> compliant in
>> > version 3.3 but is not in 3.4 or 3.5.
>> > John Ralls-2 wrote
>> >
>> > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Robert Kesterson <
>> > >
>> > > robertk@
>> > >
>> > > > wrote:> John Ralls wrote:>> Gtk isn't going to change the file
>> > > chooser in Gtk 2-24. Somebody did just that last year and we got a
>> lot of
>> > > grief from the distros about making major changes to a maintenance
>> branch.
>> > > There's also no Windows maintainer at this point, so an enhancement
>> > > request for a Windows-only feature isn't likely to go anywhere even
>> for
>> > > Gtk 3.9 (the current development version). > How tightly coupled is
>> the
>> > > Gnucash engine to the GTK GUI?  If the engine is loosely coupled,
>> maybe
>> > > some enterprising soul could write a native Windows (or Mac) GUI and
>> hook
>> > > it to the engine?It's doable. One of us, Christian Stimming, has
>> written a
>> > > basic GUI using Qt. It's called "Cutecash" and it's buildable from an
>> SVN
>> > > checkout if you're interested in playing with it. The Gnucash engine
>> is
>> > > pretty unix-y and heavily dependent upon GLib, so getting it to build
>> in
>> > > MSVS would take a bit of work before one could even start on the GUI.
>> > > That's less of an obstacle on Mac because of the Unix underneath the
>> > > pretty GUI.Regards,John
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