John, There is certainly no problem accessing an NAS drive from Linux systems (Mint19.1 in my case). I have been doing it since my NAS was put on the system 4 years agoand through all the GnuCash versions but it does require a little bit of admin work to setup. The NAS has to be setup to export shares in the right format for your OS NFS4 in my case and with the right permissions.
I use autofs to automount my devices on my Linux system the setup is not too complicated. A file /etc/auto.WNAS defines the shares to be mounted by autofs: (192.168.0.2 is the url for my NAS) # # NFS shares # NAS_backups 192.168.0.2:/data/Backups NAS_music 192.168.0.2:/data/Music NAS_videos 192.168.0.2:/data/Videos NAS_pictures 192.168.0.2:/data/Pictures NAS_documents 192.168.0.2:/data/Documents NAS_development 192.168.0.2:/data/Development /etc/auto.master has entries to define the mount point as follows. #<mount point> <map file> <options> /home/david/ArtelierW/NAS /etc/auto.WNAS --ghost,-fstype=nfs4,rw,intr,uid=1000,gid=100 I use a directory under my home directory as the mount point which means I can always access it from the file manager on the system and it is also accessible from within Gnucash. Autofs has to be installed of course. At bootup autofs will try to mount the NAS if it is switched on. (I normally have it switched off except for specific times for automatic backups as a security measure. In that case, autofs will mount the NAS shares whenever I try to access them from the mount point in my home directory if it wasn't mounted at bootup. It takes a second or two and the shared directory structure is accessibe. Caution for backups: exclude the mountpoint from a backup or you end up backing the backup up to itself a very circular argument. I haven't set this up on my wife's Windows 10 box (its backed up to the Linux system which is in turn backed up to the NAS) but I would be surprised if it is not possible, although probably much harder and more obscure to do. I'll give it a go when I can tear the Windows box away from my wife. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
