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 -- 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/