[cvsnt] Re: cvsnt on WinXP

[Gerhard Stegemann]

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:43:49 +0200, Gerhard Stegemann wrote:

> > But the problem really may be due to the fact that the Home Edition
> > of Windows XP does not support security settings and configurable
> > permissions. To have full support for permission settings you have
> > to use Windows XP Prof.
> >
> Aargh XP is even worse than I thought...

Only the Home Edition.

> You could track down a copy of ntswitch to turn it into an XP Prof I
> suppose.

I'm not sure if this will help for every case.


> The best way is to configure the TEMP to C:\TEMP and set it there in
> the system environment & on the cvsnt control panel.

What I always do too.

> A *lot* of software will break if it can't write to the temp directory,

Sure.

> and if there's no way to change the permissions then XP must be
> terminally broken.

Yes, in case of the Home Edition. Anyway, the Home Edition should not be
used for professional work.


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Gerhard Stegemann