[Hampshire] Latex running in Virtual on cifs mounted directory
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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Latex running in Virtual on cifs mounted directory
On 15 February 2010 15:09, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk 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? HTH, Peter -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Latex running in Virtual on cifs mounted directory
On 15 February 2010 15:51, Peter Salisbury peterthevi...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Is LaTex trying to create a temp file with characters the server won't allow in a file name? Now that is one thing I have not thought about. I will check that tomorrow. vi can edit the file just fine. For the time being, I have a simple bash script that will copy the LaTeX file to a /tmp directory, run LaTeX, dvips and ps2pdf, and then copy the result back. Long winded but works for now, with simple documents without any includes. Would rather get the file mounting working properly though. -- Philip Stubbs -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
