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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">All,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">I have attempted to get MPICH2 1.08 and 1.1 to work on Windows and receive the following error when performing the following command:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">C:\Program Files\MPICH2\bin>mpiexec -delegate -hosts 1 central2.itlab.platform.com hostname</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">GetGC failed 0x1</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">DsMakeSpn(mpich2_smpd, central2.itlab.platform.com, 8676) failed: The parameter</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">is incorrect.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">unable to lookup the smpd Service Principal Name.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">unable to initialize an sspi context command.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">mpiexec aborting job...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">C:\Program Files\MPICH2\bin></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">I am absolutely certain that I installed smpd using the following command, and it was successful.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">smpd</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">register_spn</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Any help would be appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A NAME=""><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Larry Adams</FONT></SPAN></A></P>
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