On 21/03/2012 11:10 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote:
Dear LyX users and developers,
LyX has a problem with Windows users that have their home directory on a UNC
path. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Troubleshooting mentions these problems for Lyx
1.5 already. (Recent versions do start, but have no classes available.)
I have been struggling with this for a long time. The workaround described in
the link (saving some steps by running configure.py directly from the
AppData\Lyx2.0 folder) worked for me on Windows XP.
Now, on Windows 7, it does not work anymore. Today, I have done some
experiments but unfortunately not found a solution yet.
What I have found out is that
- Under local users, LyX states "~\AppData\Roaming\Lyx2.0" as the user
directory. I have not seen the tilde on Windows before, but it works.
- Under network users, it states
"\\server\user\ntdata\Anwendungsdaten\LyX2.0<file:///\\server\user\ntdata\Anwendungsdaten\LyX2.0>"
as the user directory.
- Running reconfigure from LyX as the network user gives some messages
in the status line that can be traced back to the fact that cmd.exe does not
accept UNC folders.
Is there any way to reliably make LyX run as a user with a UNC home directory?
Could it help to just give LyX a different user directory to work in? If so,
how can that be done?
I think this issue really needs to be fixed soon - People with home directories
on serves are not uncommon and LyX is practically unusable for them.
Regards
Matthias
Hi Matthias,
Thanks for the descriptive report of the problem and your investigation
of it.
Please, could you add a ticket to the bug tracker at
http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome with as much information as
you can. Your email already is very descriptive of your investigation,
it would help to have this recorded on the bug tracker until someone
tries to tackle the bug.
I'm also cc'ing the dev list to see if anyone has any immediate ideas.
Regards,
Julien
