gssapi32.dll

[Jeffery Dowell]

Thanks Ben, This is most helpful and I am trying multiple variations on my test systems. I  haven't had any luck as of  yet on a fix. I just joined the list yesterday and missed out on the prior conversation about this topic. I don't see a way to access list archives so if anyone has access to this prior topic and can forward, it would be most appreciated. The subject of concern is:

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

Thanks,

Jeffery


-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Kaduk [mailto:kaduk at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 5:11 PM
To: Jeffery Dowell
Cc: Kerberos at mit.edu
Subject: Re: gssapi32.dll

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