X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:26:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: arnstein@pobox.com cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: lyx has problem with network directory names In-Reply-To: <20061005030710.GA6227@panix.com> Message-ID: References: <20061004190525.GA18950@panix.com> <45244F94.2080901@cygwin.com> <20061005030710.GA6227@panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, David Arnstein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? > > Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and > do "cd P:/" before starting lyx, in order to get it to work correctly. > In this case, P: is the drive that I mounted the share on. I don't believe Larry meant "mount" in that sense. You can use Cygwin's mount, like this: mkdir -p /mnt/darnstein mount '\\fs-sj1-15\darnstein' /mnt/darnstein and then set your HOME to /mnt/darnstein. > Oddly enough, lyx still complained > QSettings: error creating P:/.qt > > I don't know what the problem was. I created P:/.qt as an empty > directory using mkdir and all is well, apparently. > > Anyway, thank you for the suggestion Mr. Hall. FYI, using paths with colons in them will probably cause trouble at some point down the line with some tool or another that treats the colon as the separator for the remote machine name. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/