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Re: CNS/Windows 95

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Engert)
Sat Aug 3 09:06:44 1996

Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 07:53:15 -0500
From: Doug Engert <deengert@anl.gov>
To: "Donald R. McGregor" <mcgredo@crl.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU

Donald R. McGregor wrote:
> 
> 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 |

Have you tried adding a TZ=CST6CDT (or whatever for your time zone.)
This works with the MIT K5b6 CNS.EXE on Windows 95 for me. 

Doug Engert

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