Re: Client Certificates

From: Dimitris Katsikas (d.katsikas@altanet.gr)
Date: 08/29/02 

From: "Dimitris Katsikas" <d.katsikas@altanet.gr>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:25:09 +0300

Damien i had the same problem two weeks ago...
The Server Certificate you have chosen in IIS-Directory Security tab is
probably invalid or is the Root CA Certificate.

What i did was to install Certificate Services as a standalone CA, then
requested a server certificate from IIS and finally submitted this request
to
my standalone CA in order to get a valid Server Certificate...The new
Certificate looked like MyCompany CA Root/www.mysite.com!

The whole proccess is through http://machinename/certcrv/ that is created
automatically after installing Certification Services (you need Win 2K
Server for the installation).
Then through http://machinename/certcrv/ again i requested client
certificates from remote computers in my domain.

The "trick" is to select Advanced Options in the web form for the request
when are about to issue a server certificate...else User Certificate will do
for client certificate request!

I hope this will help you...
Be patient though because the documentation is really messy...

Katsikas Dimitris

"Damien" <damien.mccartney@bicsystems.com> wrote in message
news:p%5b9.1060$aM6.61041@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net...
> I am trying to take a persons client certificate of their machine (i.e my
> own which I downloaded from verisign as a trial).
>
> I have installed a trial cert from verisign and installed it to create a
web
> site that is viewed over a SSL, but when i click require client
certificate
> i get a page cannot be displayed error.
>
> does anyone know anything about certs?
>
> Cheers Damien
>
>

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