Kerberos authentication between XP and 2000 server

[Jeffrey Altman]

The very first thing to check is DNS.  You must have valid
fully qualified domain names for your XP and 2000 Server
machines or the Kerberos authentication will fail and the
workstation will fallback to NTLM.

mdj_frend at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use Windows 2000 server as KDC for an XP machine.I read
> that, by default if the 2000 server is configured as DC,kerberos is
> used as authentication method by default.I am not able to authenticate
> using Kerberos.
> 
> Steps done:
> I have configured the windows 2000 server as DC and added the XP
> as  computer to it and also added a user. I am able to login to the DC.
> I have downloaded the ktray tools from the microsoft site.
> 
> On DC, when I use the ktray tool,I can see the
> client name: Administrator at MYDOMAIN.COM
> service name: krbtgt/MYDOMAIN.COM at MYDOMAIN.COM
> taget name : krbtgt/MYDOMAIN.COM at MYDOMAIN.COM
> 
> On XP, I see nothing :(
> Can any body please say what could be the problem ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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