Paul and Tom's experimental software distribution

This page is serving two purposes. It provides a distribution point for early testing of some software packages, and it provides access to an experimental software distribution system.

The installers available from this page, are pretty much, traditional monolithic installers. This means that during the installation process they do not require any ftp access. However, the installer(s) will require a brief connection the MIT network. The installer(s) are version served. Absence of network connectivity should not prohibit the installation from completing successfully.

To obtain a copy of the installer(s) you will need to use the Netscape browser and have an MIT X.509 certificate.

• What's a certificate?
• Get a certificate.

Since this is an experimental service do not create any pages or email which may a direct reference to the URL for a particular installer. The location on the server will probably change over time. And the location and name of the server will probably change as well.

If you create a page that references this page, as an invited early tester you shouldn't, please send me a note so that I can inform you when the location of this page will change.

pbh

• Production: see http://web.mit.edu/is/help/mink/ people that are not from MIT should see http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
• Mink-10-18-99 latest changes: one bug fix in the code, users can now set the time server using the Leash32 UI. The scripts that optionally remove older versions of the DLLs during installation has been moved so that it executes before the new files are installed. A shortcut to fleavius will be placed in the common startup folder. Preventing the destination directory from being repeatedly added to the system path should now work correctly. The file version number resources have been modified. When adding to the path on NT the installer was changing the registry key type from REG_EXPAND_SZ to a REG_SZ; the installer should now be preserving the REG_EXPAND_SZ key type.
• In the10-09-99 version a semicolon was missing in the path when the installer was run on a "clean" NT machine. This is the only change between 10-09 and 10-11. This version is very close to the production version referenced above. However, there were some problems found in the previous installer. If an administrator was installing the software on NT for all users of the machine, the path was only being modified for the user running the installer. It should now affect the path for all user, if the person running the installer has sufficient access rights. Also we have once again revised the screens relating to Eudora and Kclnt32.dll. Hopefully the new screens will be improve the situation. Also, the version resources are substantially different. Please provide problem reports to pismere-bugs@mit.edu.
• If you are going to test the newest Mink installer then please also take a look at the latest draft of the installer requirements: http://mit.edu/installers/requirements/win/mink-req.html
• PLOP - 10-13-99 The Plop installer requirements can be found at http://mit.edu/installers/requirements/win/plop-req.html Plop is secure FTP client using he GSSAPI with a Kerberos Version 5 mechanism. It is not a full featured UI. It is only intended for people wishing to transfer files from a PC to a remote directory via FTP. The program still needs a lot of testing. The documentation still needs revising. And the installer needs testing. Instead of using a script based installer were using an MSI based installer. Changes between 10-11-99 and 10-13-99: multiple files should now work, even if the destination directory is derived from a Hesiod look up. The title now updates correctly, again. The Help menu now contains "About Plop" instead of "About SoFTP". If the user doesn't have tickets the message box now suggests running Leash32 first.