[mpich-discuss] MPICH problem

Wed Jun 5 16:55:23 CDT 2013

Hello,

We are having problems after having installed the MPICH2 (32-bit) along with TauDEM 5.1  32-bit Install Package on one of our Windows Server 2008 64-bit Citrix 6.5 test severs. When registering users using the wpmiregister.exe it appears that only the admin. credentials will work and NOT Citrix regular user accounts. Is there some way to allow Citrix regular users to be able to run commands that call the TauDEM applications from the server?

For example, opening up a command prompt on the test server and typing in ...

mpiexec -n 8 pitremove -z "W:\FOR\RSI\RSI\Projects\wburt\projects\2013\006_HSCM_Boundary\data\Raster\dem25.tif" -fel "T:\test.tif"

requires users credentials to launch the processes (see screenshot below). Regular Citrix credentials don't seem to be accepted whilst my admin. ones are? Also, do we add the credentials logged in to the server as 'admin' or do individual regular users register their credentials from the Citrix server session? Our users won't have admin. accounts but they will all log into the same test server with the MPICH2 and TuaDEM 5.1 install ... and yet the processes ask for credentials even though the users are already logged in with their regular IDIR Citrix login creds.???

I registered my regular Citrix user creds. and also my admin. ones but ONLy the admin one is accepted. When I installed MPICH2 I also checked off that it be available to everyone. But we still get the Aborting: Unable to connect message???

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Thank you in advance for a reply.

H.J. Miller
Spatial Technology Analyst | Infrastructure Services Section
Information Management Branch (IMB)
Phone: 250-356-5217 | FAX: 250-953-3493 | E-Mail: Harry.Miller at gov.bc.ca<mailto:Harry.Miller at gov.bc.ca>
Corporate Services For The Natural Resources Sector (CSNR)<http://gww.nrs.gov.bc.ca/csnr/>

From: David Tarboton [mailto:dtarb at usu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 7:23 PM
To: Miller, Harry CSNR:EX
Subject: Re: FW: TauDEM problem

Harry,

I do not understand MPICH2 credentials very well so I do not know what to say. I have successfully run on Windows 2008 as a Windows user but not with Citrix.  You might want to make sure MPICH2 was installed for all users.  Also see http://nick-goodman.blogspot.com/2012/02/using-mpich-from-ms-visual-studio-2010.html for some suggestions that may help.  Also you might try mpiexec -register with the admin user.  If it is running as admin maybe this will work for other users without having to give them admin credentials.  Also is wpmiregister.exe the same as mpiexec -register.  Sometimes there are different versions of MPI on the same machine from different software and if the wrong one runs it does not work.  It is frustrating to me to have to have TauDEM depend on this software that is so hard to install and get configured right.

Good luck.

Dave
On 6/4/2013 5:06 PM, Miller, Harry CSNR:EX wrote:
Hello,

I have installed the MPICH2 (32-bit) and TauDEM 5.1  32-bit Install Package on one of our Windows Server 2008 64-bit Citrix 6.5 test severs. However, when registering users using the wpmiregister.exe it appears that only the admin. credentials will work and NOT Citrix regular user accounts. Is there some way to allow Citrix regular users to be able to run commands that call the TauDEM applications from the server?

For example, opening up a command prompt on the test server and typing in ...

mpiexec -n 8 pitremove -z "W:\FOR\RSI\RSI\Projects\wburt\projects\2013\006_HSCM_Boundary\data\Raster\dem25.tif" -fel "T:\test.tif"

requires users credentials to launch the processes (see screenshot below). Regular Citrix credentials don't seem to be accepted whilst my admin. ones are? Our users won't have admin. accounts but they will all log into the same test server with the MPICH2 and TuaDEM 5.1 install ... and yet the processes ask for credentials even though the users are already logged in with their regular IDIR Citrix login creds.???

I registered my regular Citrix user creds. and also my admin. ones.

Is something still missing here??

Thanks for a reply.

Harry

H.J. Miller
Spatial Technology Analyst | Infrastructure Services Section
Information Management Branch (IMB)
Phone: 250-356-5217 | FAX: 250-953-3493 | E-Mail: Harry.Miller at gov.bc.ca<mailto:Harry.Miller at gov.bc.ca>
Corporate Services For The Natural Resources Sector (CSNR)<http://gww.nrs.gov.bc.ca/csnr/>
Government of British Columbia

From: Miller, Harry CSNR:EX
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 3:20 PM
To: Burt, William FLNR:EX
Subject: RE: TauDEM fix

Will,

Looks like the creds have to be admin ones. Do you have an admin. account? My admin. creds work but not my regular IDIR creds.

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Harry

H.J. Miller
Spatial Technology Analyst | Infrastructure Services Section
Information Management Branch (IMB)
Phone: 250-356-5217 | FAX: 250-953-3493 | E-Mail: Harry.Miller at gov.bc.ca<mailto:Harry.Miller at gov.bc.ca>
Corporate Services For The Natural Resources Sector (CSNR)<http://gww.nrs.gov.bc.ca/csnr/>

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