[GNC] cannot write back to Windows share

[Kalpesh Patel]

How are you sharing your file? 

I see "/media" at the beginning of the path which tells me that you are sharing a remote file system (like a NAS device) onto your Windows machine and same one you are trying to share out to your Linux system. In that case make sure that any given moment in time only one (and only one) GNC has it opened. 

If your file is on a NTFS file system on a local drive then make use of VMware Shared Folders mechanism to share them to the virtual machine which are easiest to deal with it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Louise <griffin at bernevyl.com> 
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:50 PM
To: GnuCash Mailing List <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] cannot write back to Windows share

I think this might be "programmers" question rather than a GnuCash question.

I have an existing Windows 10 system, but I am trialing Linux mint 22.3 in a VMWare virtual machine. I am looking at droppingW10 when I'm happy with Linux. So far so good but I have an issue with GnuCash.

My data is still on the Windows drive. I have set up an auto mount for launch. I can access the data on the windows share, but GnuCash wont let me save changes back to the windows share.

This is the message:

I set permissions to 777, But when I look at the accounts file, I have read/write, my group only has read-only.

What should the permissions be, and what would be the best way to set them properly.

Thanks,

Louise