Windows Xp authentication to MIT KDC

[Chaskiel M Grundman]

--On Friday, May 26, 2006 04:39:28 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah at stanford.edu> wrote:

> I think this is related to a lack of SRV records for our KDC, because
> when  I go into the properties for "My Computer" and tell it to join the
> "stanford.edu" domain, I get:
> Are SRV records an absolute
> requirement with windows?
srv records are an absolute requirement for windows domains. external realm 
authentication (like you set up with ksetup) does not require them.

Did you set a machine account password? is it correct? does the name of the 
relevant host principal exactly match <NETBIOSNAME>.stanford.edu? It is 
possible that configuring the 'primary dns suffix' (hit the 'more' button 
in the dialog that allows you to join a domain) will allow you to use a 
more arbitrary principal name. I have never tried, and the documentation 
does not say anything about it.