Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:37:31 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries Message-ID: <20051026143731.GA1936@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1130262948.435e71a4abd76@webmail.mail.gatech.edu> <1130283941.435ec3a5672f2@webmail.mail.gatech.edu> <4kmnzwxkibr0.1rd655owgqdi6$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4kmnzwxkibr0.1rd655owgqdi6$.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* gtg793x@mail.gatech.edu (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100) >> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski : >>> 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 -- 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/