I just managed to resolve the issue of using GnuCash with MySQL on Windows 7 (both 32bit and 64bit). There were two bugs reported for this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624465 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635911
Apart from an unitialized pointer bug, the main reason the users weren't able to connect is because they got firewalled when using localhost as the hostname. Replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1 solves the problem. I remember there's a bug somewhere in bugzilla regarding GConf (which also affects GnuCash and is referenced from one of the older still open GnuCash bugs) that explained this: on Windows localhost refers to the ip address of your primary network card, not 127.0.0.1. The firewall filters incoming traffic on the former, but not on the latter. My thanks go to Ian X Waddington and choiks here for patiently executing all tests I conjured up during this investigation. But I'm not only writing this to inform, I would also like to propose to change the hostname that is set by default in the Save As and Open dialog boxes to 127.0.0.1. If we leave it as localhost, I guess we will be getting a lot of "It doesn't work" messages in the future. What do you think ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
