Sunday, January 12, 2014

ODBC SQL Server Driver - Cannot Generate SSPI context

On the weekend I responded to an emergency callout regarding a custom Microsoft Access front end application not being able to talk to the backend SQL database.  The error which was being received was as follows.

Connection failed:
SQL State:'S1000'
SQL Server Error 0
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Cannot generate SSPI context


After investigation this was caused by an incorrect time set on the SQL server.  The Kerberos time tolerance by default is set 5 minutes however the SQL server clock had drifted 8 minutes out.  The customer did not have their Active Directory time hierarchy configured correctly.

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