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* Chris Taylor (2005-10-26 17:38 +0100)
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
* Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100)
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 <pechtcha@cs.nyu.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.
*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...
Problem with that is that if the sysadmin knows what he's doing, it only takes about 4 seconds to block off almost all possible ways of actually editing the registry...
Definitely not. As a user running programs you are almost constantly
changing the registry (your HKEY_CURRENT_USER). So often importing a
.reg file is not allowed (by double clicking) and starting regedit in
GUI mode.
A batch file that checks for an existing mount table and saves it, then mounts it according to what you want is far, far better.
This batch file is registry editing, too. If you edit the registry or the mount command - that's no difference from a sysadmin's point of view.
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