Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/26/10:37:40
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>* gtg793x AT mail DOT gatech DOT edu (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100)
>> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>:
>>> 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.
cgf
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