[GNC] Accessing data on a windows share from a link app, (Brad Morrison)

[Michael or Penny Novack]

>
> And another thought: I dual-boot, so there's no chance of accidentally 
> changing the data file while it's open in both OS at the same time. 
> Somebody running Linux in a VM under Windows (or vice versa), or with 
> multiple computers accessing the main file in network-attached storage 
> (aka a server?), does have that danger, mitigated somewhat by Gnucash 
> file locking which tries to be sure only one user has write access 
> (but easy to override) and any locking provided by the server OS. 

THAT is precisely why some of us describe the process of overriding or 
deleting a file lock including AFTER MAKING SURE NO OTHER INSTANCE OF 
GNUCASH COULD BE USING THE FILE. We aren't being silly, just including 
the possibility the resource is available to a network.

Michael D Novack