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

[John Snyder]

Eureka! Thats it! All works well now. Many thanks!

Regards,

John S


On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Chris George <cgeorge at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> 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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