mixing sun solaris's rpc with mit's rpc

fariba fariba at usc.edu
Fri May 27 13:38:10 EDT 2005


hostent in netdb.h seems to be changed to rpcent in  mit 1.4.1 
gssrpc/netdb.h.  in our routins we assign sockaddr_in.s_addr to 
hostent.h_addr. rpcent does not have a such entry!

Kevin Coffman wrote:

>>has anybody used sun's rpc  and mit's rpc in a kerborised application? 
>>the mit's rpc (gssrpc)  is to be used for encrypted  communication and 
>>the sun's rpc is used for non-encrypted communication. we have such a 
>>program but we want to upgrade to 5-1.4.1 version of kerberos,  but the 
>>header files are quite different now and we run into compilation issues. 
>>whereas we did not have a problem with prior kerberos releases. we use 
>>solaris 2.6 , 2.8 and 2.9. also anybody ever used sun's rpc and kerberos 
>>to  communicate with  mit's kerberos server? i appreciate the help very 
>>much. thank you.
>>    
>>
>
>Are you talking about differences between 1.3.x rpc headers and
>1.4.1 headers?
>
>What kind of problems are you having?  I'm looking at changes to our
>version of the rpc library which we need for NFSv4.
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