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Re: Windows 98 & MINK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alicia Allen)
Thu Jul 16 16:57:43 1998
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 16:58:55 -0400
To: installers@MIT.EDU
From: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
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>Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 16:14:06 -0400
>To: Mark Huang <markman@MIT.EDU>, resnet-help@MIT.EDU
>From: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Windows 98
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>Hi,
>
>winsock.dll and pretty much most of the Microsoft TCP/IP stack was replaced
>when Windows 98 came out. I won't be surprised if there has been some
>subtle differences in the DLLs and/or updated network card drivers (Win98
>replaces a lot of them with its own updated versions) -- especially since
>kerb4win.dll does not appear to have been updated in a while. For the
>record, I think I can substantiate this fact because I have kept track with
>all beta releases of Win98 at work since #1, and if I recall correctly, I
>saw this happen only after release candidate 1 came out. All the betas of
>Win98 until then worked fine with Leash and HostExplorer.
>
>If someone can get me access to a Win98 machine in N42 (we really should
>have one set up in there anyway, whether we officially support it or not),
>I'll bring over my debuggers and track it down this weekend. I refuse to
>install Win98 on my own machine and find out myself because I'm too scared
>of what it might do to fix what ain't broke. :-) Alicia, can we work on
>using one of the random Win95 machines sitting in the consultants area?
>
>In the meantime, I think all RCCs should discourage people from upgrading
>to Win98 unless there is truly something broken with their current
>installation of Win95. PCs that come preinstalled with Win98 and/or PCs
>that were bought within the past 4-5 months have a significantly higher
>chance of working with Kerberos and Leash in my experience, although I have
>seen problems as well with those. So far, I do not have a fix for that --
>if I find one I will let someone know.
>
>-Edwin
>Ashdown RCC, RCC Developer
>
>At 01:37 PM 7/16/98 EDT, Mark Huang wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Anyone have any problems with Windows 98 and Kerberos? The Help Desk is,
>>as usual, Not Much Help, and suggest that I just "keep trying." The
>>reported errors are
>>
>>socket() failed,
>>
>>Cannot contact the Kerberos server for the selected realm (Kerberos
>>error 57)
>
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>Edwin Foo | MIT Computer Science - BS '98, MEng. '99
>efoo@mit.edu | Compaq Computer Corp. - Cambridge Research Lab
>(617) 225-9715 | Residential Computing Consultant (RCC) Developer
>
> "Love must be sincere; Hate what is evil; cling to what is good."
>http://hesed.mit.edu/~efoo - Romans 12:9 <><
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Alicia Allen
iggy@mit.edu (617) 253-0191
Resnet Coordinator MIT, N42-140
