X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45244F94.2080901@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:19:32 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: lyx has problem with network directory names References: <20061004190525 DOT GA18950 AT panix DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20061004190525.GA18950@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com David Arnstein wrote: > I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my > home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This > is a network directory, obviously. > > When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint > QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt > > When I try to save a lyx document to my home directory, lyx complains > when it presents its file browser dialog box. It says > Could not read directory /fs-sj1-15 > > It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It > does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//." So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/