[MPICH] MPICH2 Configuring Windows smpd to see Linux smpds

[David Ashton]

James,

If you want to use both Linux and Windows machines you need to add
-plaintext to the mpiexec command.  smpd encrypts the username and password
under Windows but it requires that the remote host also be a Windows
machine.  If you add -plaintext then encryption is not used and mpiexec can
talk to any host.

This is probably why the Windows GUI tool is not able to contact the Linux
machine.

-David Ashton

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
[mailto:owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of James S Perrin
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:39 AM
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: [MPICH] MPICH2 Configuring Windows smpd to see Linux smpds 

Hi,
	What are the requirements and restrictions to getting an smpd (and
therefore 
mpich2) on windows to talk to an smpd running on linux (all ia32)?

	I've built smpd under linux with the smpd_version.h fix and run smpd
on linux 
with smpd -s -p 8676 and same phrase as windows in an account with the same 
name/password as that in windows. wmpiconfig seems very MS Workgroup
(domain) 
orientated and the linux box is under a different IP domain anyway. Typing
the 
linux address into the Host field and hitting Get Settings just returns an
error 
"MPICH2 not installed or unable to query the host"

Regards
James
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