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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
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