[mpich-discuss] Problem with MPICH2 v1.0.8 on WindowsXP

[bob ilgner]

Hi,

Don't forget the mission. You want to deploy MPI and not debug a Windows
glitch however enticing that may be. I get caught out by digging into the
Windows guts and spending hours on something I can never fix anyhow.

Regards, bob

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:38 PM, pisoir <ondrej.sluciak at gmail.com> wrote:

> No I haven't because I don't have the MS Servers. I only wanted to connect
> 2 computers, both running Win XP Professional. I had no problem with MPI
> running two linux machines (using mpd).
>
> Marcus Vinicius Brandão Soares wrote:
>
>> Hello Ondrej,
>>
>> Have you tried to look at the number of licenses for connections in sherk
>> ? I seems to me that, if everything is ok, Microsoft's license manager can
>> be rejecting the (extra) connection. (or it may be a bug in license manager
>> ...).
>>
>> License manager is a program embedded in Microsft's Servers to monitor the
>> maximum number of lawfull connections.
>>
>> You can see it in the control panel of shrek.
>>
>> I hope I helped you ;-))
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Marcus Vinicius.
>>
>> 2008/12/14 pisoir <ondrej.sluciak at gmail.com <mailto:
>> ondrej.sluciak at gmail.com>>
>>
>>    Hello,
>>
>>    I have one problem on Windows XP SP3 and I'm starting to feel
>>    really desperate now. Thanks to help of this:
>>
>> http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2008-November/000037.html
>>    I was able to get over the validation of mpiexec (mpiexec
>>    -validate returned SUCCESS). Anyway, if I want to run even the
>>    simplest program possible,i.e.  mpiexec -host second_host
>>    hostname, I always get the error:
>>
>>    Credentials for Ondrej rejected connecting to shrek
>>    Aborting: Unable to connect to shrek
>>
>>    (Ondrej is the name of first computer, shrek is the name of
>>    second). If I do "smpd -status shrek" (from Ondrej computer), I get:
>>
>>    smpd running on shrek
>>
>>    So it seems that everything is ok. I turned off the firewalls, I
>>    can ping each other and also the shared folders are accessible
>>    from both computers. Just the mpi is not running as it should. I
>>    reinstalled mpich2 and rebooted computer so many times, that it
>>    couldn't be reinstalled and rebooted any more. Does anyone have
>>    some similar problems or at least have any clue how to solve this?
>>    Thanks.
>>
>>    Ondrej
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Marcus Vinicius
>> --
>> "Havendo suficientes colaboradores,
>> Qualquer problema é passível de solução"
>> Eric S. Raymond
>> A Catedral e o Bazar
>>
>> "O passado é apenas um recurso para o presente"
>> Clave de Clau
>>
>> "Ninguém é tão pobre que não possa dar um abraço; e
>> Ninguém é tão rico que não necessite de um abraço.
>> Anônimo
>>
>
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