16 bit MS-Dos Sybsystem

Hello
I am trying to run remotely a exe file using java. I am using Runtime.
But I am getting this window error
It says: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntvdm.exe
Error While Setting up environment for the application.
The header of the window is "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem"
If I try to run the exe file directly then it runs fine.
Thanks in advance for any help
Ritesh

Whatsya windows version, fewl?

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yeah..yeah whatever mate
"Peter de B. Harrington" wrote:
> I figured it out. I was able to copy the VDD key from another system that
> was working correctly. Just wish that uninstall programs would leave the
> registery clean.
>
> Pete
>
> "Peter de B. Harrington" wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
> > I presently have Matlab 6.1 and LabView 6i installed on a system operating
> > under Windows XP. I had installed GPIB and removed it using the LabView
> > setup program.
> >
> > When executing a dos command from Matlab, I would get a 16 Bit MS Dos
> > Subsystem Error that said the device driver GPIB-VDD.DLL was missing and
> it
> > was, which was probably caused by a sloppy LabView uninstall routine.
> >
>
> I went into the registery and removed the keys with this device driver
> > referenced. However, now when I have a system call from matlab, the same
> > error message appears except that it says,
> >
> > \windows\system32\cmd.exe
> > \System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers Virtual Device
> Driver
> > format in the registery invalid. At present there is no entry for
> > VirtualDeviceDrivers. Should I add one and if I do what should I set the
> > value to?
> >
> > In addition, I have a Win32 executable that does not generate this error
> > from the command prompt. It always generates this error from the Matlab
> > system call using DOS, SYSTEM, and !, which makes me think that Matlab
> > system commands are run in a 16 bit instead of a 32 bit mode. If there is
> a
> > way to execute 32 bit console applications from Matlab, it would remedy
> this
> > symptom.
> >
> > Please e-mail me a copy of an reply posts.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >

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Buttons: Close, Ignore
after calling "lc.login ();"
but then I can get the Subject and print out Principal (name) and it is correct.
However, in JNDI call "new InitialDirContext ();" I receive:
GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Failed to find any Kerberos Ticket)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5InitCredential.getInstance(Krb5InitCredential.java:142)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5MechFactory.getCredentialElement(Krb5MechFactory.java:70)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSManagerImpl.getCredentialElement(GSSManagerImpl.java:149)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSCredentialImpl.add(GSSCredentialImpl.java:334)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSCredentialImpl.<init>(GSSCredentialImpl.java:59)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSCredentialImpl.<init>(GSSCredentialImpl.java:36)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSManagerImpl.createCredential(GSSManagerImpl.java:96)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSContextImpl.initSecContext(GSSContextImpl.java:178)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSContextImpl.initSecContext(GSSContextImpl.java:158)
at com.sun.security.sasl.gsskerb.GssKerberosV5.evaluateChallenge(GssKerberosV5.java:160)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.sasl.LdapSasl.saslBind(LdapSasl.java:113)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.saslBind(LdapClient.java:374)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.authenticate(LdapClient.java:190)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2516)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:263)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.java:76)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:243)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:219)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:195)
at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:80)
at Test$MyAction.run(Test.java:196)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:319)
at Test.go(Test.java:132)
at Test.main(Test.java:73)
I'll check these new messages against other posts in the forum to see if there are similar problems...
If anyone already knows this problem and a fix, please enlighten.
Regards,
plb

Runtime.exec error in windows

When i try to run an external program with Runtime.exec() in windows 2000, i get a windows pop-up with the following error msg:
d:\winnt\system32\ntvdm.exe
Error while setting up environment for the application.
I have no idea how to fix this since i have no clue to what that error means.
Thanks
Rumy

I've personally just encountered the same error. I am building a piece of demonstration software to distribute with my graduate school applications to demonstrate my programming experience and I wish to include a set of programs I wrote some years ago in Pascal and C++. The software has been compiled for MS-DOS 6.0. I am using the following command to execute the software from within my Java program:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"command.com","/c","12cards.bat"});The batch file performs the appropriate setup operations for the program and runs the executable. When I run this code segment, I receive the following error:
[16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem]
C:\WINNT\system32\ntvdm.exe
Error while setting up environment for the application. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
I have another code segment in which I attempt to run the executable myself (without the help of command.com or the batch file). The code segment is as follows:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"12cards.exe"}, new String[0], workingDir);When I run this code segment, the following IOException is thrown:
java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: 12CARDS.EXE error=2
     at java.lang.Win32Process.create(Native Method)
     at java.lang.Win32Process.<init>(Win32Process.java:66)
     at java.lang.Runtime.execInternal(Native Method)
     at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:566)
     at (my code)I have already found the document on Microsoft's support website which describes a solution to this problem. Manually extracting the autoexec.nt, config.nt, and command.com files from the installation CD-ROM did not help.
The most confusing element of this: 12CARDS.EXE runs fine if I execute it from Windows Explorer. It's only a problem if it's executed from within my Java program. I have two other DOS programs which I want to include as well; I am having the same trouble with them.
Any advice will be much appreciated. Thanks!

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