From: Markus Fischer Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: Problems w/pvm3.4 beta6 under NT 4.0 SP4 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:14:13 +0100 Organization: University of Paderborn Message-Id: <36C42924.1A0A3B33@uni-paderborn.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8018 So maybe it does not work fine. May be it's not passing stdout / err back immediately but when the process ends. That way it can't work. For this reason the PVM people developed their own one. M. Janice McCarthy wrote: > Hi! I hope someone can help... > > I am trying to get pvm up and running under NT 4.0. I have downloaded > and installed pvm3.4 beta 6 on two pc's running NT, and I have also > installed rshd16 (NOT the pvm distributed version, because I had some > trouble with that one, and this one seems to work just fine - i.e. I can > get a directory listing of a remote machine.) > > When I go into PVM console on one machine and try to add the other NT box > to the virtual machine: > > add "hostname dx=C:\progra~1\pvm3.4\lib\win32\pvmd3.exe" > > the program hangs for about 5-10 minutes. During this time, the > pvmd3.exe daemon is actually started up on the remote machine (I can see > this from the pvml file, and I can also see the Service under NT) > > When the pvm prompt comes back in the console window, it says '1 > successful', indicating that the host was added. But when I type 'conf', > all I can see is the local machine. At this point, there is a time-out > error in the pvml file on the remote machine, and the daemon is no longer > running. > > I can run 'rshd -d' on the remote machine during this process. In this > case, I can see that the daemon is executed, but nothing after that. > > Anyone have *any* idea what I might be doing wrong??? Does anyone have > *ANY* version of pvm running under NT 4.0?? If so, can you tell me which > one? > > Thanks in advance! > > Janice -- Markus Fischer voice: +49 5251 60 6322 PC^2 fax: +49 5251 60 6297 Fuerstenallee 11 mail: getin@uni-paderborn.de 33102 Paderborn http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/getin