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Re: CNS/Windows 95

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald R. McGregor)
Fri Aug 2 23:01:45 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 2 Aug 1996 08:59:24 -0700
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)

In article <4tkrsg$vt@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>,
Nalin Dahyabhai <nsdahya1@thermo.stat.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>Donald R. McGregor (mcgredo@crl.com) wrote:
>: I've got the cns client software for windows 95, and I'm attempting
>: to get it to work without much success. When I supply all
>: the appropriate data (name, instance, realm, and password)
>: to get my initial ticket, I get an error message:
>: 
>: Retry count exceeded (send_to_kdc)
>: 
>: Sounds like a bad connection to the server, eh? But the
>: wierd thing is that the requests are being logged on the
>: unix cns server in /usr/kerberos/database/kerberos.log:
>: 
>: 29-Jul-96 15:18:00 Initial ticket request Host: xxx.yyy.63.119 User: "mcgredo" ""
>
>I think the clock on your Windows box is out of sync; it may even need to be
>switched to GMT (depending on whether or not CNS takes care of translating
>times) to match the KDC's time.

Hmmmm...no joy here. I've tried various elaborations on this without
success. Doesn't Winders do something weird like use the local time
in the hardware clock rather than GMT? 

-- 
Don McGregor    
mcgredo@crl.com |      

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