* Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100) > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100) >>> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> See "man mount". Please, please, please don't manipulate the registry >>>> directly if you want to stay portable. You can easily create a batch file >>>> to reproduce the mounts properly. >>>> ... >>>> "User mounts" is the answer. The CURRENT_USER tree is usually writable. >>>> Make sure you don't write over the existing settings if they are present. >>> >>> Current XP computers I am trying to run this into give me: "Registry >>> Editing has >>> been Disabled by your administrator." even if I try to write to Current_User >>> >>> All I am trying to keep portable is the X server thus XWIN.exe is the only >>> executable I have, the only one I execute. After running the X server as the >>> background server I am tunneling the packets using Putty / Securecrt. >> >>Try "regedit /s" in a batch (instead of double clicking). This >>sometimes works. > > Or, I dunno, if that works, you could just use "mount" and forget about > regedit entirely. > > It's a crazy idea, I know. I wonder why no one has thought of it before.
*I* didn't know about it (because I was under the impression that all cygwin programs depend on the mount tables). Well, obviously there are a few that don't (mount, cygcheck, ash (?), etc.?) And I think it's easier to just import a reg file than dealing with multiple mount commands... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
