[X-Servers] KDC will not run - "Unable to bind to Parent"

[Tim David]

The KDC requires DNS to have both forward and reverse lookups setup  
correctly, did you set up a reverse record?
Here's the bad news, once that KDC fails to start, about the only way  
to fix it is to reinstall OSX Server. Actually, I have not seen a way  
to fix this yet without reinstalling the server operating system. I've  
called several people at Apple and received the same answer.

Tim


Tim David
Senior Systems Administrator
University of Central Florida
College of Education
TimDavid at mail.ucf.edu
(407) 823-1783



On Sep 22, 2004, at 3:00 PM,  
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> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:29:19 -0700
> From: Frank Flynn <frank at declan.com>
> Subject: [X-Servers] KDC will not run - "Unable to bind to Parent"
> 	error?
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> Hi,
>
> I have an xServer and i want to have it authenticate users on other
> Macs in the office.
>
> The server is up and working, users can login to it.  But the clients
> cannot authenticate through this server - a quick look in the "Open
> Directory" shows the KDC is "stopped".  Looking in the logs shows this
> "Unable to bind to parent" error everytime the server starts up.
>
> I think I have DNS set up properly - it can ping itself and the rest of
> the internet (by name) is there a better way to test?
>
> Does anyone know what this is?  Or does anyone know of a step by step
> guide to walk me through setting up authentication?
>
> Frank
>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:47:44 -0400
> From: Rich Trouton <flounder at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [X-Servers] KDC will not run - "Unable to bind to Parent"
> 	error?
> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X Server and server software on Mac OS
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> Do you have your server set up as an Open Directory master, or as a
> standalone server?
>
> 	Rich
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> On Sep 22, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Frank Flynn wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an xServer and i want to have it authenticate users on other
>> Macs in the office.
>>
>> The server is up and working, users can login to it.  But the clients
>> cannot authenticate through this server - a quick look in the "Open
>> Directory" shows the KDC is "stopped".  Looking in the logs shows this
>> "Unable to bind to parent" error everytime the server starts up.
>>
>> I think I have DNS set up properly - it can ping itself and the rest
>> of the internet (by name) is there a better way to test?
>>
>> Does anyone know what this is?  Or does anyone know of a step by step
>> guide to walk me through setting up authentication?
>>
>> Frank
>>
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