Re: [Networker] Problems with NMC and IE 8?

Matthew Huff <mhuff AT ox DOT com> wrote on 10/26/2009 10:57:10 AM:

> I have had tons of problems with IE8 with NMC, Cisco LMS, SecurID, 
> and other web based management systems. I've always tried to keep to
> the "standard" MS install, but I gave up and moved to Firefox 3.5. 
> Everything has been much better since.

In my case, the service wouldn't start after installing IE8. Using FireFox 
wouldn't have helped, in this situation.

> 
> 
> 
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> Matthew Huff       | One Manhattanville Rd
> OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577
> http://www.ox.com  | Phone: 914-460-4039
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:[email protected].
> EDU] On Behalf Of MIchael Leone
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:41 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Problems with NMC and IE 8?
> 
> I just had a weird issue. I have an VM (Win XP Pro, SP3) that I use as a 

> management console of sorts. It has NMC installed, as well as MS AD 
tools, 
> etc. I just inadvertently updated from IE 7 to IE 8 (why MS thinks that 
is 
> a "critical update", and you must explicitly decline it, I don't know). 
> Anyway, after the system re-started, the Remote Exec service wouldn't 
> start, and so neither would NMC. Gave me some weird error in the event 
> log:
> 
> The EMC GST Service service depends on the NetWorker Remote Exec Service 

> service which failed to start because of the following error: 
> %%0
> 
> Descriptive, huh? :-)
> 
> Anyway, I uninstalled IE 8 (it complained, but I ignored it), and now 
all 
> works as it should again. Console came up fine. Not sure what the 
problem 
> is (maybe a permissions issue on a local install folder? It complained 
it 
> couldn't write to "\Program Files\Legato\nsr\temp\ko"), but I thought 
I'd 
> pass that along. Works fine using IE 7 and JRE 1.6.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel:  215-684-4180
> Cell: 215-252-0143
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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