[GNC] GnuCash Tools>Online Banking Setup NOT working for me

[Glenn Serre]

Good morning,

To add to what Gyle said, even though I recently made a mildly
successful attempt to get aqbanking working with Bank of the West
(BOW), I have decided to stick with downloading monthly qfx files that
match my pdf statements.  In addition to Gyle's reasons, what I like
about this is:

- OFX direct connect support for non-Quicken applications is iffy.
The old ofxhome info for BOW does not work, and I had to get the
client id from the quicken logs. BOW tech support was unhelpful.

- BOW seems to only support an old version of the OFX protocol (I was
hoping to get check images using OFX 2.0).

- The downloaded qfx files provide a way to reconstruct my accounts
should anything go wrong with my gnucash db.

- If I detect in the reconcile that I messed something up, the
matching statements help me resolve the issue.

-- Glenn S.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 7:30 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:
>
> Shiv,
> I also should have mentioned that I stopped using Aqbanking because too many of my financial institutions won't work with it.  I have found that going to the financial institutions' websites, which I do on a regular basis anyway, and downloading the transactions in the desired format and then importing into Gnu Cash works just as well with the added benefit of not having passwords stored in yet another piece of software.  For security reasons, I like having my passwords stored in Bitwarden only, my password manager.
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>           email
>
> ________________________________
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Shiv Jhawar <shivjhawar at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 8:28 AM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash Tools>Online Banking Setup NOT working for me
>
> Hello,
>
> Please help.
>
> I am using for the first time:
> GnuCash Version: 4.12
> Build ID: 4.12+(2022-09-24)
>
> I select: Tools>Online Banking Setup> Start Online Banking Setup> Start
> AQBanking Setup> OFX-DirectConnect backend>Run>Bank Name>Select a bank
> (matching banks NOT shown when I type in Bank of America)
>
> I am not able to setup  Bank of America Checking account for Actions>Online
> Actions>Get Transactions despite hours of efforts. "Not Responding" shows
> up whenever I make any selection from the top menu.
>
> I followed this link:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect
>
> Bank Name: Bank of America
> FID: 5959
> ORG: HAN
> Server URL: https://eftx.bankofamerica.com/eftxweb/access.ofx
>
> User Name: Shiv Jhawar
> User ID: sjhawar7
> Client UID
>
> The user has been successfully setup. You can now try to retrieve the list
> of accounts...
>
> Enter Password: I entered my password
>
> Requesting Account List:
> Screen pops up showing:
>
> 07:08:04 Sending request...
> 07:08:05 Using GnuTLS default ciphers.
> 07:08:05 TLS: SSL-Ciphers negotiated: TLS1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES-128-GCM:AEAD
> 07:08:05 Waiting for response...
> 07:08:05 Parsing response...
> 07:08:05 Status for signon request: *General error (Code 2000, severity
> "ERROR")*
> Error other than those specified by the remaining error codes. (Note:
> Servers should provide a more specific error whenever possible. Error code
> 2000 should be reserved for cases in which a more specific code is not
> available.)
> 07:08:05 Status for account info request: General error (Code 2000,
> severity "ERROR")
> Error other than those specified by the remaining error codes. (Note:
> Servers should provide a more specific error whenever possible. Error code
> 2000 should be reserved for cases in which a more specific code is not
> available.)
> 07:08:05 Operation finished, you can now close this window.
>
> Please *see attached screenshots.*
> *I get the following error:*
>
> *Error on executing job*
> *Status:enqueued (1)*
>
>
> Have a peaceful day!
> Thanks -
> Shiv
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