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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:23:42 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 07:15:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>
>> I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here:
>>
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html>
>>
>> Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment.
>> Thanks!
>
>Joshua,
>
>One thing wrong I see right away is the statement that for a single-user
>workstation, the "Install For" option doesn't matter.  This has been the
>source of numerous complaints on the list when people set up Cygwin for
>"Just Me" and then try installing sshd (or any services) - there are no
>mount tables for LocalSystem.  I would correct the first two sentenses of
>that paragraph to something like:
>===
>	If you have enough privileges on the system, it's always better to
>	install for "All Users".  The only reason to install for "Just Me"
>	is no write access to the HKLM registry key or the All Users Start
>	Menu.
>===
>And leave the ntsec reference intact.

Another tweak could be to provide a link to the README in CVS when you
refer to it, a la:

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/README?cvsroot=cygwin-apps&rev=2

cgf

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