Remote Parental Controls from 10.6 incompatible with 10.7 client

All,
This weekend I was wresting with getting Parental Controls setup on my Neice's MBP which is running Lion, no problem I have that working. But I wanted to setup my Sister's iMac which is running Snow Leopard as the remote admin machine. Unfortunately as it turns out Apple has made a number of changes in kerberos from Snow Leopard to Lion which makes them incompatbile and the iMac will refuse to connect to the Lion machine. It'll just sit there for a few mins spinning its wheels, then finally comes back and says invalid username or password..
Here's a snip from the MBP's logs:
3/25/12 12:56:05.682 AM
odproxyd
peer appears to be running Mac OS X 10.6 or earlier
3/25/12 12:56:05.682 AM
odproxyd
got error 1101
3/25/12 1:02:29.582 AM
odproxyd
peer appears to be running Mac OS X 10.6 or earlier
3/25/12 1:02:29.582 AM
odproxyd
got error 1101
I'm guessing there is no work around for it, but curious if others have experienced this, and if they know of a possible workaround?
The funny thing is that screen sharing and everything works just fine, just can't manage the Parental Controls..
I think the only 'fix' is to upgrade everything to Lion, but why not ask, and maybe someone will find this post and will be saved from countless hours of hair pulling!
Regards,
-KC

I know this is a dated thread, but since I'm seeing the same behavior currently, I didn't see any reason to start up a new one w/ the exact same symptoms. I rebuilt a MacBook w/ a 10.6.6 installer and was surprised to find that most updates from my 10.6.8 Server SUS were not "visible" to the client, including the 10.6.8 v1.1 combo updater.
This may be a larger issue w/ Apple's catalogs (which I believe are causing 10.5.8 Leopard SUS to bail out w/ an error when checking for new updates), as pointing to another 10.6.8 server on another network entirely results in the same problem. I'm not missing ALL of the updates on the MacBook, just MOST of them, your Safari 5.1.7 above included. Another is GarageBand 6.0.5. So, for comparison, on a 10.8 test Server SUS, I downloaded and enabled both of those updates and pointed the MacBook to it. They show up immediately on the MacBook.
Are any of you experiencing this currently? And if so, do you have any points of comparison on other SUS machines by chance? Again, I'm thinking this has something to do w/ the upstream catalogs that Apple is putting out.
Thx,
Fred

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