[Freeipa-users] Windows clients problem

Konstantin Kozlov kozlov at spbcas.ru
Fri Nov 7 11:54:34 UTC 2008


Thank you for the help!

After another round of googling I've found that XP uses rc4-hmac...I'll 
try that next day.

Johan Venter wrote:
> Konstantin Kozlov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Johan Venter wrote:
>>> Konstantin Kozlov wrote:
>>>> WinXP machine asks to login to Kerberos realm at login screen, but 
>>>> doesn't let me in. The krb5 log file on IPA server shows that ticket 
>>>> was issued. I can get ticket with MIT Kerberos from WinXP machine 
>>>> but I can't access samba share.
>>>
>>> I had to add -e des-cbc-crc to the ipa-getkeytab command line I used 
>>> to generate the Windows host principal and set the password before 
>>> Windows login to the Kerberos realm would work.
>>>
>>> Windows XP/Server 2003 doesn't support useful encryption mechanisms.
>>>
>>
>> I did that also and that didn't work. Do I need to install the keytab 
>> on WinXP machine? If yes, how?
>>
> 
> Hmm .. I had to use the latest version of ipa-getkeytab (which supported 
> the password option - I compiled my own RPMs for CentOS) and between 
> that, then -e option and ksetup /setcomputerpassword it finally worked 
> on my Windows Server 2003 machines.
> 
> Maybe there is something different with XP machines, all I can suggest 
> is try the different encryption types and see what works (DES generally, 
> no AES or SHA hashes).
> 
> Johan
> 


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