[GNC] Accessing data on a windows share fro a link app

[Mike Brady]

Couple more notes:

I dual-boot Windows 11 and Linux Mint on the same machine. Windows and 
Linux are installed on separate physical disks (though separate 
partitions work the same way), and data are on other separate disks 
(machine has 2 SSDs and 2 HDs. Mint (Gnucash 5.10 in Flatpack) has no 
problem working with the Gnucash data files on the separate data disk 
(NTFS) out of the box. Other flavors of Linux might need something added 
to do that. Primary system used for Gnucash work, however, is Window. 
Because of dual-booting, there is no possibility of both OS's having the 
data file open at the same time.

I don't regularly do it, but I can also copy my Gnucash data to Onedrive 
and work on if from a different machine. Onedrive simply acts as 
network-attached storage in that application. Gnucash does simple 
locking when opening the file, so there would be at least a speed bump 
if somebody else tried to open the file from Onedrive while I was 
working on it. Again, seldom used.

My main way of sharing the Gnucash data is by sneakernetting USB sticks 
with the bookkeeper. Then, of course, trying to remember where the most 
recent copy of the data file is ... I'm prone to "Dory" moments (see 
"Little Mermaid"). ;-)

Yes, more questions need to be answered...

Mike Brady

On 2/19/2025 7:34 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:34:41 -0500
> From: Michael or Penny Novack<stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
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> On 2/19/2025 3:07 AM, Geoff wrote:
>> This is a Windows/Linux networking question, not specific to GnuCash
>> per se.
> Yes, and there OTHER questions you need to answer. 
> Are these two different machines (connected by a LAN)? 
> Is this on the same machine? If so, is this two separate partitions? 
> Or is Linux running in a Windows partition (by one of the ways that 
> can be done) or vice versa? 
> Oh, one more possibility. Here my cable-wireless modem has several 
> Ethernet and USB ports (for example, our printers connect to the modem 
> by Ethernet*) So COULD have a data drive connected with the gnucash 
> data not on either machine. 
> Michael D Novack 
> * One of those printers WOULD support direct wireless, but the if off 
> 24+ hours I'd have to go through getting it reconnected.