Author: Peter Salisbury Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Latex running in Virtual on cifs mounted directory
On 15 February 2010 15:09, Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote: > At work we have a Microsoft Windows setup. I have to have Windows as
> my main operating system. However, I do have VirtualBox running with
> Ubuntu so that I can do some useful stuff.
>
> My problem is accessing the files on the network. I have the following
> line in fstab
> //10.10.20.11/dan_data /mnt/danmail cifs
> iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/philip/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mod=0755,dir_mode=0755,noatime
> 0 0
>
> I can browse the files ok. I can open the files in vi to edit them.
> However, if I try and run LaTeX, it complains "! I can't find file
> `whatever.tex'."
>
> I have tried mounting the file using the gnome file browser GUI thing,
> and that puts the mount point under ~/.gvfs/etc... but it puts a space
> in the mount path that causes ghostscript to barf.
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can improve this?
>
> --
> Philip Stubbs
>
Is it a permissions issue? Perhaps LaTex needs rw access? Can you
write to the files in vi? file_mode can't give you more access than
the server is willing to grant.
Is it to do with Windows not preserving the case of file names? Is
LaTex trying to create a temp file with characters the server won't
allow in a file name?
