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Re: Fwd: Outbound telnet/ftp from cygwin not working
Michael Rilling wrote:
> After doing a lot more googleing, I've stumbled upon this fix. Wonder
> if you know about this issue?
>
> In regedit go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
> edit DataBasePath change %SystemRoot% to its real value (on mine its
> C:\WINDOWS) Don't know why but this fixed my issue.
>
> Let me know if you've heard this before.
This happens when something edits the registry and changes that key
from REG_EXPAND_SZ to REG_SZ. %-variables are only expanded in keys of
type REG_EXPAND_SZ. You should find that by default Windows uses
%SystemRoot% and REG_EXPAND_SZ so everything works fine. It's only when
some brain-dead program or installer mucks about with that key and
changes it to a regular string that you have a problem.
And this will only matter to programs that call getservbyname(), which
these days are very far and few between. telnet is one though.
Brian
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