  In this paper we study the question of residual gauge fixing in the path
integral approach for a general class of axial-type gauges including the
light-cone gauge. We show that the two cases -- axial-type gauges and the
light-cone gauge -- lead to very different structures for the explicit forms of
the propagator. In the case of the axial-type gauges, fixing the residual
symmetry determines the propagator of the theory completely. On the other hand,
in the light-cone gauge there is still a prescription dependence even after
fixing the residual gauge symmetry, which is related to the existence of an
underlying global symmetry.
