Kerberos diagnostic tool?

[Jeffrey Altman]

GSS-API Kerberos authentication is embedded within application
specific protocols.  In this case, you need to write a test application
which implements the SQL query protocol as implemented by the ODBC
drivers.

the Java-ODBC driver interface provides very poor performance and is
usually regarded as something which should not be used unless you
absolutely have to.  I suggest you find a native JDBC driver which
supports the GSS-API negotiations.  That will provide you better control
over what is happening on the client.



Sleepy wrote:

> I was wondering if there is some test application/tool/etc. that I can
> run to test a connection to SQL Server using Active Directory/Kerberos
> authentication only.  I have tried using the SQL Server ODBC driver,
> but that seems to be designed to try other network authentication
> protocols if connecting via Kerberos fails.  My reason for asking for
> this is that I am looking for something that I can provide to
> customers to help them confirm whether the connectivity problems that
> they are experiencing with our software when attempting to connect to
> SQL Server are general configuration problems with the Active
> Directory/Kerberos environment.
> 
> TIA!
>