Why am I getting the error message “clock skew too great” when requesting a Kerberos ticket using the Windows client?
A. This indicates that the clock on your computer has the wrong time. “Clock skew” is the range of time allowed for a server to accept Kerberos authenticators from a client. In order for Kerberos authentication to work, your Windows client and the Kerberos server’s time need to be within 5 minutes of each other. If they are too far off you will receive the “clock skew too great” error message and you will not be able to get a Kerberos ticket. To resolve this issue you must manually set the clock on your system to the correct time. To avoid this problem in the future there are several free time synchronization programs available to use under Windows.
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