Windows XP : Solution and Problem

[Alexis Christoforides]

I, like many of you, have tried installing PGP 7.0.3 on Windows XP. Many of
you had the 'IP Stack Disabled' problem which , as I discovered , can be
fixed with the following line at the command prompt (I have posted it
before):

sc config ipsec start= system

Which, for the ones who'd like to know, tells the IPSec driver to start when
the system boots. PGP for some reasons tells it to do otherwise. Reboot and
everything should be fine, and you should also be able to install PGPNet.
You may want to include this solution into the FAQ.

Now for my problem. PGP works fine under XP, except if I use Fast User
Switching, which I do. If a second user logs on, PGP starts complaining that
'PGP cannot work in this system environment'. The error persists even if the
second user logs off. I then have to reboot to make it work.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

--
Alexis Christoforides

[Albert]

Alexis Christoforides wrote:

Fast User Switching uses Terminal Services to do its work.

From tom's site:
* "PGP 7.0 is designed to run on all versions of Win2K (Pro,
Server, Advanced Server) and is routinely tested on all those platforms.
PGP 7.0 is designed to *not* run under a Terminal Services client.
There are many technical and security issues involved when running PGP
on a multiuser system like Win32 Terminal Services. Given our limited
resources here, and in the interest of security, it was decided to not
allow PGP to run in this environment.... PGP should run fine on the
console of a server which is acting as a Terminal Services server. It
will refuse to run under a Terminal Services client (no matter what
mode)." -NAI

--
Albert

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[Alexis Christoforides]

"Tom McCune" <tom@DELETE_THISmccune.cc> wrote in message
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> In article <a0kg4j$l5ib6$1...@ID-119106.news.dfncis.de>, "Alexis

> Christoforides" <alex...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >I, like many of you, have tried installing PGP 7.0.3 on Windows XP. Many
> >of you had the 'IP Stack Disabled' problem which , as I discovered , can
> >be fixed with the following line at the command prompt (I have posted it
> >before):
> >
> >sc config ipsec start= system
> >
> >Which, for the ones who'd like to know, tells the IPSec driver to start
> >when the system boots. PGP for some reasons tells it to do otherwise.
> >Reboot and everything should be fine, and you should also be able to
> >install PGPNet. You may want to include this solution into the FAQ.

> <snip>
>
> Is it fair to assume that the above problem happens only when the PGPnet
> component is installed? If so, does the above command resolve the issue
> while PGPnet is still installed, or after reinstalling without PGPnet?

I believe that the problem indeed appears only when PGPNet is installed. You
do not have to unistall or reinstall PGPNet for this solution to work, but I
haven't tested PGPNet to see if the component works properly (don't have it
installed right now). The rest of the PGP suite works fine, though.

--
Alexis Christoforides

[Michel]

The PGPNet issue is annoying but since I am not using it I can live with it.
For me the not correct functioning of PGPDisk under XP becoems a real issue
that will develop into a final adios if there is no fix.

Sadly I had to say, that the support for PGP is not what I call the
brightest
thing in this world