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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
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Subject: Re: WARNING: Read this if you use Kermit 95 with Kerberos on NT
Date: 28 Oct 1998 15:21:17 GMT
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In article <7168g2$c23$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
:
: If you are using Kermit 95 with Kerberos (any version) on NT
: you must be aware of the following known problem with Service Pack 4:
:
: When SP4 is installed on a laptop or other machine that has
: an Ethernet adapter which may be removed from the system, if the
: machine attaches to the network via a PPP Adapter, Kerberos will
: be unable to determine the proper IP address being used by the
: computer. Instead of using the IP address assigned to the PPP
: adapter, it will instead use the IP address of the Ethernet adapter.
: This will cause all generated service tickets to be rejected by
: their hosts.
:
: If you use K95 and Kerberos on NT, make sure that users who might
: be affected by this problem do not install SP4.
:
: Since it is unlikely that Microsoft will produce a Post-SP4 fix
: to this problem (a similar problem is already in Win98 Winsock 2)
: the only solution is to distribute new versions of the Kerberos
: libraries when they are available.
The immediate work-around is not to allow your users to use static
IP addresses and instead require that all adapters use DHCP to retrieve
that IP addresses even if they are static.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org