AW: can't start xfree as user

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Rüdiger Bodack wrote:

> > Can anyone help out with this problem please? I have XFree86 
> > running on 
> > Windows 2K and it is fine for me when I'm logged in as Admin but if I 
> > log in as a User it won't run. I have a feeling the answer is to set 
> > owner of xinit to root but as I'm using cygwin I don't think this is 
> > possible is it? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.
>
> after A while I had enough with win2k rights and added my network user to
> the local administrator group. Now I am the boss on my computer. Not
> elegant, but works.
>

it should help to mount /tmp to a directory where you have the right to
create files.

eg. mount -b <your_profile>/temp /tmp
or mount -b c:/temp /tmp

bye
	ago
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