* 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: >>> >>>>* [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. >> >> *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. -- 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/