The OpenSSL DLL is necessary to run the executable.  Off hand I couldnt tell
you why you got the botch message.  If you could provide more details on
what traffic you see, or a way to reproduce, I can look into it.  You just
need to have the proper openssl DLL in your path.  The windows installer
copies it into your windows system32 directory.  You don't really need the
rest of the stuff that it puts into c:\openssl, so it doesnt matter where
you have it.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>wrote:

> Hi Newsham,
>
> Is OpenSSL necessary for authenticating to 9P servers?
> Currently, I get a "failed to mount ...: <22> botch" error when
> trying to authenticate. Also, is it necessary to compile ninefs
> with OpenSSL, or will the pre-compiled binary find and use
> c:\openssl if it's there?
>
>
> Thanks,
> ak
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Tim Newsham <tim.newsham@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The Jan5 binaries were broken, thanks for those who reported
> > the problem.  I've uploaded new binaries and updated the README
> > to include instructions on installing OpenSSL binaries.
> >
> > On Jan 5, 10:16 am, Tim Newsham <tim.news...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I added p9sk1/p9any authentication support to npfs and added support
> >> for authentication to ninefs. The README has been updated with new
> >> build instructions (OpenSSL is now a dependency) and an updated binary
> >> has been put in the downloads area.
> >
> >
>
>


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