[mpich-discuss] Windows Vista 32 bit, cant get mpiexec -validate to work..

[Chris George]

I suspect you did what I first did.  You have to supply the login  
password of the user when you register mpiexec, not the passphrase you  
used in installation.

Chris

On 2011-04-04, at 11:07 PM, John Snyder wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I installed MPICH2 version 1.3.3rc1 on my laptop that has a pentium  
> dual core T2080. The OS is 32 bit Vista Home Premium. Install went  
> well as far as I could tell. I left the passphrase at 'behappy' and  
> chose 'all users', not 'just me' during install. I made sure smpd  
> was running with smpd -status. I then did the following:
>
> C:\Test for MPI on Windows>C:\MPICH2_1d3d3rc1\bin\mpiexec -remove
> Account and password removed from the Registry.
>
> C:\Test for MPI on Windows>C:\MPICH2_1d3d3rc1\bin\mpiexec -register
> account (domain\user) [JOHNSLAPTOP\test]:
> password:
> confirm password:
> Password encrypted into the Registry.
>
> C:\Test for MPI on Windows>C:\MPICH2_1d3d3rc1\bin\mpiexec -validate
> FAIL
>
> The password I use above was 'behappy'. I cant get the validate  
> command to work. I've read many of the relevant threads in this  
> forum. I've shut off UAC and while that helped smpd to run, it did  
> not help with the validate problem. I've tried creating another  
> administrator account and got the same result. I've tried stopping  
> and installing smpd - no luck.
>
> I went ahead and tried running mpiexec just to see what would happen:
>
> C:\Test for MPI on Windows>C:\MPICH2_1d3d3rc1\bin\mpiexec -n 2  
> icpi.exe
> Credentials for JOHNSLAPTOP\test rejected connecting to JohnSlaptop
> Aborting: Unable to connect to JohnSlaptop
>
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> John S
>
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