Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: "Philip J. Mucci" <mucci@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: PVM on WINNT and pvmd.xxx file
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:48:34 -0500
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Andrea Boni wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm new to pvm and this is the first time I use this service: I hope you
> can solve my problems. Excuse me in advance for my bad English.
> This is the problem:
> 
> I installed pvmwin32beta3 on two PC supporting WINDOWS NT 4.0 Operating
> System and I used a Denicomp System's Winsock RSHD/NT Remote Shell Deamon
> as rshd. Now, when I load the Virtual Machine from one of two PC
> I can see that the pvmd slave deamon on the remote PC creates a
> pvmd.SYSTEM file and NOT a pvmd.user file! So if I try to load the pvm
> console from the remote PC it can't contact the local deamon that already
> exist, but it creates a new local deamon with a new pvmd.user file.
> Why do happen this? Is it for the rshd?
> 
>  Thanks in advance.
> 
> --Andrea.

That's definitely an rsh problem. I haven't tested it with the
Winsock stuff, but that should be answered in the manual. 

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