Registry Entries And Ini Files - Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Reference

Registry entries and INI files

Registry entries and INI files
Current user and local machine settings
Current user takes
precedence
When local
machine settings
are needed
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On Windows 95/98 and Windows NT operating systems, Adaptive Server
Anywhere uses several registry settings. On Windows 3.x, UNIX, and
Netware 3.11, these settings are held in initialization files instead.
These settings are made for you by the software, and in general operation
you should not need to access the registry. The settings are provided here for
those people who make modifications to their operating environment.
Some operating systems, such as Windows NT, hold two levels of system
settings. Some settings are specific to an individual user, and are used only
when that user is logged on; these settings are called current user settings.
Some settings are global to the machine, and are available no matter which
user is logged on; these are called local machine settings. You must have
administrator permissions on your machine to make local machine settings.
Adaptive Server Anywhere permits both current user and local machine
settings. For Windows NT, these are held in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER
registry and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry, respectively.
If a setting is made in both current user and local machine registries, the
current user setting takes precedence over the local machine setting.
If you are running an Adaptive Server Anywhere program as a service under
Windows NT, you should ensure that the settings are made at the local
machine level.
Services can continue to run under a special account when you log off a
machine, as long as you do not shut the machine down entirely. They can be
made independent of individual accounts, and therefore need access to local
machine settings.
In addition to Adaptive Server Anywhere programs, some Web servers run
as services. You must set local machine settings in order for PowerDynamo
to work with such a Web server.
In general, the use of local machine settings is recommended.