For some reasons, unknown to me my compu shows the following error :

[user1@RayNew user1]$ ftp RayNew
Connected to RayNew.
220 RayNew FTP server (Version 5.60) ready.
334 Using authentication type GSSAPI; ADAT must follow
GSSAPI accepted as authentication type
GSSAPI error major: Miscellaneous failure
GSSAPI error minor: No credentials cache found
GSSAPI error: initializing context
GSSAPI authentication failed
334 Using authentication type KERBEROS_V4; ADAT must follow
KERBEROS_V4 accepted as authentication type
Kerberos V4 krb_mk_req failed: You have no tickets cached
Name (RayNew:user1): user
530 Must perform authentication before identifying USER.
Login failed.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
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i am not able to use any other ftp spftware also ...
i tried proftpd and ncftpd as well, but ncftp show the very same weird error
pasted below!

ncftp -u user1 RayNew
NcFTP 3.1.3 (Mar 27, 2002) by Mike Gleason (ncftp@ncftp.com).
Connecting to 10.200.2.54...
RayNew FTP server (Version 5.60) ready.
Must perform authentication before identifying USER.
Sleeping 20 seconds...

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SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP...i have already consumed all of my head trying fixing up the problem

I am using RH Enterprise WS 3.0, so I can't give precise instructions.

Check your RH9 ftp server's configuration file for the ftp server. This will be in /etc/xinetd.d. In my case it is called gssftp.

Check the line configuring the arguments passed to the ftp server when xinetd starts ftpd after receiving an ftp connection request. In my case I see the line:
server_args = -l -a

When I remove the "-a" and restart xinetd, I am still asked to provide a user account and password, but I am no longer failing kerberos authentication and failing with the 530 error you are experiencing.

Good luck.

For referring me to this thread...the recommended change worked like a charm!