Vista and kfw-3.2.2

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at secure-endpoints.com
Fri Nov 9 12:12:39 EST 2007


Was kfw installed without performing a restart?  That would have
resulted in the behaviour your originally experienced since the
mit\kerberos\bin directory would not yet be in the PATH of the
winlogon.exe process.

I don't think kerbtray.exe modifies registry values. 

Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> Well it is working today...
> Even after some restarts yesterday it was not working.
>
> Since yesterday, the admins did some maintance overnight
> and I don't get the mpnotify error message now.
>
> But this morning after login KFW did not show any tickets,
> and import credentials did not do anything.
>
> So I copyed kerbtray.exe from an XP machihe and ran it one.
> Now KFW shows the TGT.
>
> Could kerbtray have changed the registry in a way that
> also allowed KFW to import credentials?
>
> So not clear what happened, and why it is working now.
>
> P.S.
>   MSVCR71.dll is in the c:\programs files\mit\kerberos\bin
> directory.
>
>
> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>> Douglas E. Engert wrote:
>>> Just installed kfw-3.2.2 on new Vista Enterprise.
>>>
>>> After logoff and during logon the messagbox:
>>>
>>>   mpnotify.exe unable to locate component
>>>
>>> This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.
>>> Reinstalling the application may fix the problem.
>>>
>>> As I said this is a new system. Does kfw need msvcr71.dll?
>> mpnotify.exe is the process that winlogon.exe executes in order to
>> process Network Providers.  The KFW network provider is kfwlogon.dll and
>> it is linked to msvcr71.dll.  msvcr71.dll should have been installed to
>> the KFW directory and that directory should have been added to the
>> System PATH.
>>
>>
>>
>
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