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Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain
- From: Holger Krull <holger dot krull at gmx dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:05:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain
- References: <01ff01c832a7$fe900e00$2a05a8c0@telcotec.local>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Paul Mulcahy schrieb:
>> Maybe you have a problem with ntfs file permissions.
>> The domain users must have at least write access to tmp and their home
> directory, and read access to most of the rest. The domain Administrator
>
> I suspect it is somewhere in permissions but I have allowed the user and
> group full access to the C: drive (my machine and test machine). None of
> this has helped.
>
>> Did you use mkpasswd to add the domain accounts to cygwins passwd file?
>
> Yes I've done this too but it has made little difference. The warning
> message at the start is gone but it is still the same error message.
>
> Are there any registry files that Cygwin needs? I suspect there is something
> that it can not access that it needs but I am unsure what.
At least HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
You could use sysinternals process monitor to track file and registry access and see if something fails. (Or just add everyone full access to see if it makes a difference, but remove that later)
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