VMWare Win-host/Linux-guest hgfs LWL 4.3.7
Hi, There is background and then a problem statement. BACKGROUND I have a Windows XP Pro laptop running VMWare Workstation 4.5.1. I have a Linux Debian installed as a VMWare guest OS. VMTools and everything works great. I have several XP directories shared so they are visible to Linux. I am trying to establish one Lisp source tree in a shared folder and have both Windows and Linux use the files in that shared folder. In Windows, I have a folder <prefix>/lisp/projects/... In Linux the shared folder name is /mnt/hgfs/<sharename>/lisp/projects/... In Linux, in my home directory, I made symbolic link to /mnt/hgfs/<sharename>. Now in Linux in my home directory I can e.g. ls ~/lisp/projects and I see the files OK. I can cd ~/lisp/projects and then 'touch x', 'emacs -nw -q x', change the file contents, save the file, exit Emacs, and everything works with no problems. Similarly, I can use emacs to change a file that had been created from the Windows side. (I can create and delete files from within Linux. I can modify files within Linux, regardless of whether the file was created in Linux or in Windows.) PROBLEM STATEMENT When I'm in the LispWorks Linux IDE (LWL 4.3.7), I can open a shared-folder file in the Editor. However, the buffer is read-only. If I toggle buffer read-only and then try to save the file, I get an error "Cannot write to .... it is write-protected". Although I opened the file via the symbolic link ~/lisp/..., the file name shown in the LispWorks IDE is /mnt/hgfs/..... i.e. not the symbolic link name. When I open the file via the symbolic link in Emacs, it shows the file name as ~/lisp/..., i.e. the symblic link name. Is there a way I can edit files in the shared folder using the LispWorks Linux IDE? What is LispWorks doing differently than Emacs, and why? FYI in the Linux guest, every file in the shared folder is owned by root.root. Trying to change the file permissions from within Linux has no effect. Thanks, Jeff Caldwell __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com