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Kerberos issues - Windows XP Advisory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stuart Madnick)
Tue Oct 9 13:50:21 2001
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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:44:57 -0400
To: Jonathan Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>, itpartners@MIT.EDU, winpartners@MIT.EDU,
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From: Stuart Madnick <smadnick@MIT.EDU>
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I had some questions regarding the Kerberos issues in XP. Who is
the best person at MIT to talk with? Is there any more detailed
information about what the problema are and how they are being resolved
beyond the brief notes below (from http://mit.edu/swrt/kfw/) ...
Thank you.
>>Date: Friday, 5 October 2001
>>From: Jonathan Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu>
>>To: itpartners@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu, sw-release-announce@mit.edu
>>Subj: Windows XP Advisory - Wait!
>>Cc: infosys@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu
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>>
>>Good afternoon,
>>
>>Microsoft will release the retail version of Windows XP on October 25,
>>2001. The two separate families of Windows operating systems, 95/98/ME
>>and NT/2000, will finally combine to have a single kernel in XP. Even
>>though the families are combined, two versions of XP will still exist:
>>Professional and Home Edition. The Home Edition will not be able to join
>>domains, significantly impacting its usefulness at MIT.
>>
>>One critical application that does not work with Windows XP is Kerberos
>>for Windows 2.1, which means that Eudora and other Kerberos dependent
>>applications will not work. The Windows developers are working on a new
>>release of KfW to fix this problem. More information is available at
>>http://mit.edu/swrt/kfw/ .
Overview
Because of the incompatibility between KfW 2.1 and Windows XP, the Windows
Developement team is working on a new release of Kerberos for Windows, KfW
2.1.1. The KfW 2.1.1. release team will then work to test and quickly
release this software to the MIT community.
Announcements
Fixed compatibility problem with Windows XP
Microsoft shortened the DLL name buffer in Windows XP and that has broken the
Fixed problem of libraries improperly exporting some resolver symbol name
This problem only affected some developers
k524init could not be built by other sites - only effects other schools
We are now providing a version that is statically linked to some Kerberos
libraries as a temporary fix and migration path to a future release
>>Thanks,
>>Jonathan
>>______________________________________
>>Jonathan M. Hunt
>>Windows Platform Coordinator and
>>Co-Team Leader for Software Release Team
>>Information Systems
>>W92-191 x3-0172
________________________________________________________________
Stuart Madnick (smadnick@mit.edu)h; Tel: +1 617/253-6671; FAX: +1 617/253-3321
http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/home.html
John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technology
& Leaders for Manufacturing Professor of Management Science
MIT Sloan School of Management; Room E53-321
30 Wadsworth Street; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA
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questions regarding the Kerberos issues in XP. Who is the best
person at MIT to talk with? Is there any more detailed information
about what the problema are and how they are being resolved beyond the
brief notes below (from
<a href="http://mit.edu/swrt/kfw/" eudora="autourl">http://mit.edu/swrt/kfw/</a>)
...<br>
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Thank
you.<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite>Date: Friday, 5
October 2001<br>
From: Jonathan Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu><br>
To: itpartners@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu,
sw-release-announce@mit.edu<br>
Subj: Windows XP Advisory - Wait!<br>
Cc: infosys@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu<br>
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Good afternoon,<br>
<br>
Microsoft will release the retail version of Windows XP on October 25,
2001. The two separate families of Windows operating systems, 95/98/ME
and NT/2000, will finally combine to have a single kernel in XP. Even
though the families are combined, two versions of XP will still exist:
Professional and Home Edition. The Home Edition will not be able to join
domains, significantly impacting its usefulness at MIT.<br>
<br>
One critical application that does not work with Windows XP is Kerberos
for Windows 2.1, which means that Eudora and other Kerberos dependent
applications will not work. The Windows developers are working on a new
release of KfW to fix this problem. More information is available
at
<a href="http://mit.edu/swrt/kfw/" eudora="autourl">http://mit.edu/swrt/kfw/</a>
.</blockquote></blockquote><br>
<table border=0>
<tr><th width=617><font face="Verdana"><b>Overview</b></th></tr>
</table>
Because of the incompatibility between KfW 2.1 and </font><font face="Verdana" color="#0000FF"><u>Windows XP</u></font><font face="Verdana">, the Windows Developement team is working on a new release of Kerberos for Windows, KfW 2.1.1. The KfW 2.1.1. release team will then work to test and quickly release this software to the MIT community.<br>
<table border=0>
<tr><th width=617><b>Announcements </b></th></tr>
<tr><td width=15></td></tr>
<tr><td width=28><td width=546><b>Fixed compatibility problem with Windows XP</b></td></tr>
</font><tr><td width=28><td width=546><font face="Verdana">Microsoft shortened the DLL name buffer in Windows XP and that has broken the </td></tr>
<tr><td width=28><td width=546><b>Fixed problem of libraries improperly exporting some resolver symbol name</b></td></tr>
</font><tr><td width=28><td width=546><font face="Verdana">This problem only affected some developers</td></tr>
<tr><td width=28><td width=546><b>k524init could not be built by other sites</b> - only effects other schools</td></tr>
</font><tr><td width=28><td width=546><font face="Verdana">We are now providing a version that is statically linked to some Kerberos libraries as a temporary fix and migration path to a future release</td></tr>
</font></table>
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<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite>Thanks,<br>
Jonathan<br>
______________________________________<br>
Jonathan M. Hunt<br>
Windows Platform Coordinator and<br>
Co-Team Leader for Software Release Team<br>
Information Systems<br>
W92-191 x3-0172</blockquote></blockquote><br>
<div> </div>
<div>________________________________________________________________</div>
<div>Stuart Madnick (smadnick@mit.edu)h; Tel: +1 617/253-6671; FAX: +1 617/253-3321</div>
<div><a href="http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/home.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/home.html</a></div>
<div> John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technology </div>
<div> & Leaders for Manufacturing Professor of Management Science</div>
<div>MIT Sloan School of Management; Room E53-321</div>
30 Wadsworth Street; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA
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