On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100) >> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> 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/