[189] in installers
probs with kerb on win98
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alicia Allen)
Tue Sep 22 10:56:12 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:55:22 -0400
To: installers@MIT.EDU
From: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I wanted to make sure you guys were aware of this.
Any hope of it getting fixed?
thanks,
Alicia
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>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:40:22 -0400
>To: rcc@MIT.EDU
>From: Stanley Hu <stanhu@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Re: installing kerberos
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>I just tried installing Kerberos and HostExplorer from a client's machine
>with Windows 98 and got an "Error 2001" no matter what I did. I have a
>feeling the Kerberos and the HostExplorer installers are a little bit buggy
>(or slightly incompatible with Windows 98's new Winsock layer). It works
>most of the time, but every so often it fails on a particular system.
>
>The quick fix: Share out the C:\NET\MIT directory and C:\HOSTEX32 from
>another system, copy the files directly to the client's machine, make sure
>that the PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT includes C:\NET\MIT, and set
>USERNAME=<athena login> for machines using Windows 95/98.
>
>At 09:41 PM 9/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>The hostname is attitude.mit.edu (18.243.0.85). This is an old ip address,
>>so it should be resolving just fine. And so far as I can tell, it is
>>resolving just fine because I can ping it from other places.
>>
>>I rechecked the network settings and everything is correct. However, the
>>installation is getting the same errors still. What else can I do?
>
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Alicia Allen
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