[15897] in Athena Bugs
Kerberos, Eudora, and NT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher H. Barron)
Mon Apr 20 18:21:49 1998
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:21:27 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: "Christopher H. Barron" <topher@MIT.EDU>
Greetings-
This is more of a bug/work-around report. Right off the bat, I know I'm
askin' for headaches cuz I'm using Eudora 3.0.2, but I'd appreciate any
known work-arounds to my "problems":
I'm off-campus and use a dial-up account to get email. I used Tether to
get the Host Explorer installer, and installed both Host Explorer and
Kerberos. I don't normally use Tether, but my roommate told me that an MIT
IP is necessary to get Kerberos installed correctly. So after Kerberos was
all happy, I went back to using my Erol's account. All necessary
environment modifications and Eudora settings were made and things work
fairly well except for a few issues:
1) If I have Kerberos tickets from a previous dial-up session, Eudora
chokes with a Kerberos error when I get mail (complains that the network
address is invalid). I work-around this by running Leash and
re-initializing my tickets. Then I go back to Eudora and get my mail. I
know that Kerberos tickets use IP address information, and that dial-up
sessions for most ISP's (including mine) assign IP addresses at log-on.
Just wondering if there's a way to make Eudora destroy tickets upon exiting.
2) Leash sometimes returns an error when initializing tickets, saying it
can't connect for the specified Realm. This only happens when Leash
doesn't automatically provide my username with @ATHENA.MIT.EDU appended
after it. Why it sometimes does or doesn't automatically append this, I
have no clue.
3) I also randomly get "Kerberos error 57: Can't send request
(send_to_kdc)" and "closesocket failed" errors. "Randomly" ie- most
dial-up sessions go without a hitch, but once in a while, I get these
errors even though I'm doing tasks identical to past sessions.
My system summary:
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (64MB RAM, 3.2GB NTFS C: partition)
Eudora Pro 3.0.2 (using the Welty installer)
Zoom SupraExpress 56e external modem
Thanks in advance,
Chris Barron
topher@mit.edu
