Re: [MiKTeX] UNC path not allowed as TeX root

[Christian S. <cs...@mi...>]

J.Fine wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've just report a bug:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1854168&group_i
> d=10783&atid=110783, as subject.
> 
> I wish to use UNC folder \\xxxx\yyy\zzz as a TeX root.  I can in MikTeX
> 2.4, but not 2.6 and 2.7.

There is a work-around (registry hack):

Start regedit and create/open HKLM\SOFTWARE\MiKTeX.org\MiKTeX\2.7\Core. 
Then add/edit the "roots" value (type REG_SZ):
roots=\\xxx\yyy\zzz

This works for 2.6 and 2.7.