Gary, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:33:31AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-01-14, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:04:27PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > So how does one set that right? > > > > Besides using editrights as suggested by Larry, you can also use the > > "Local Security Settings" MMC console on Windows 2000 or later: > > > > 1. start/Programs/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy > > 2. start/Run.../secpol.msc > > Thanks, but I don't seem to have that on this system, Windows XP > Home Edition version 5.1 SP3. > [snip]
Sorry, I forgot XP Home doesn't support the above. IIRC, this is one of the reasons why editrights was created. > I tried starting fetchmail from that dialog and got the same error > message as before. I essentially never used a Windows Home edition before, so I don't have any experience installing and running services on these OSes. Maybe someone on the list with this experience can help you? Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- 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/
