gssapi32.dll

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Jeffery Dowell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently deploying the MIT Kerberos for Windows 4.01 client
> (32bit) for use in our Kerberos environment. Specifically, The Kerberos
> client is used to provide credentials to SAP software. While the
> installation is going well on many computers, I am having a reoccurring,
> currently unsolvable, problem on several. Reboots nor reinstalls help
> the issue. The error has occurred on both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of
> Windows 7. The install of MIT Kerberos goes through without error. It
> seems to be the availability of the gssapi32 module specifically that
> causes the issue. I am attaching a screenshot of the issue. Has anyone
> encountered this error before?
>
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
>
>
> Here are a few highlights from the attached screenshot:
>
> SncPDLINIT()==SNCERR_INIT
> Unable to load GSS-API DLL
> Error 182 = "The operating system cannot run C:\Program Files (x86)\MIT\Kerberos\bin\gssapi32.dll
> Return Code -1
> System Call LoadLibrary

It seems that gssapi32.dll has some library dependencies which are not
included by the installer.  If there are other applications installed on
the system which also need those support libraries, the needed libraries
will be present and consumers of gssapi32.dll will work fine.  If not,
then the errors such as this become visible.

I do not have the old mail from when this issue was previously raised
right at hand, but it looks like at least msvcr71.dll is likely to be
missing, and potentially other such support libraries as well.  You should
probably investigate the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package
(e.g., https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555) and
see if that can provide the needed libraries.

-Ben Kaduk