netjoin with windows 2003 Server???

Bala Viswanathan balav at lsil.com
Wed Apr 7 16:15:09 EDT 2004


Doug:

> Has any one been able to use the netjoin tool on Unix (HP-UX in my case)
> (source from MS:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnactdir/html/kerberossamp.asp)
>
> to create a computer account and keytab file with a Windows 2003 Server?
>
> I'm able to create the account, and the keytab file is created, but when
> I use the keytab file to authenticate as the "host" principal (using
> kinit) it fails.  However if I use the random password generated for the
> account I can successfully execute kinit:

netjoin has not been updated to support Windows 2003 Server. It needs to
get the key version number from the server after setting the password and
before creating the keytab entry. Try sending a bug report to:

	uxkrbbug at Microsoft.com

Bala


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