Geany does not work with network drives or a network drive mapped to a local folder

[mazsihej]

Geany does not work with network drives or a network drive mapped to a local folder.
I have my codes on a network drive. The drive is mounted in Windows10 as Z:...
When I try to run/build, I am getting the error "Failed to change the working directory to "Z:...."
I tried to create a symbolic link in Windows, mapping the drive to c:\folder with the command
mklink /d c:\folder \networkhost\sharename
After that I am getting a popup window saying "Runtime error !..." (screen clipping attached).

[b4n]

Which Geany version are you using? This kinda looks like 1.24, and 1.25 has major improvements regarding running commands under Windows, so it might fix that too.

[frlan]

I had seen some similar issues with Windows 7 and smb-Folders complete unrelated to Geany. For some reason -- i didn't investigate more at this time and don't have access to this setup anymore -- I wasn't able to run some installer or general executables from mounted device. My idea was it might be related to some issue with antivirus. To solve it I needed to copy file to local file system. Maybe worth double checking before deep digging into Geany.

[codebrainz]

Is it because of that silly Windows bug where you can't cd into a folder on another drive, but first have to put the drive letter by itself to switch to that drive and then cd into the folder?

Like:

C:\Whatever> cd Z:\foo
<doesn't work>
C:\Whatever> Z:
Z:\> cd foo
<works>

IIRC there was some code added for Windows to override the normal/shortcut-chosen working directory, maybe it needs to do something fancier?

[mazsihej]

It seems that after the update to 1.25 i can use as the working directory the mapped network drive.