Re: Smart Card Base Components problem on XP

From: Adam Augustyn (gustaw_at_isonar.com.pl)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:07:00 +0100

Setup "Smar Card" service to run on the LocalService account instead of
LocalSystem.

gustaw

William Dicks wrote:
> I used to run Win2k on my machine. Last week I upgraded to XP, and
> since then my applications that make use of smart cards can no longer
> see any smart card readers connected to my machine. I ran the smart
> card reader diagnostic tool and it reported the following:
>
> 1. Windows XP (Version 5.1, Build 2600), "Service Pack 2"
> 2. Locale ID: 1c09 (English)
> 3. Windows Folder: C:\WINNT
> 4. PC/SC initialised
> 5. SCardEstablishContext failed. Message: SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE
> 6. CTAPI initialised
> 7. SCARD32.DLL loaded
> 8. CHIPDRIVE driver version: SCardServer V2.14.41
> 9. The driver is installed correctly.
> 10. List of found chip card reader(s)
> 11. 1 devices with CHIPDRIVE SCARD Interface support:
> 12. CHIPDRIVE extern I USB at COM2 Status: valid PrID: 67/0
> 13. Card in reader at port COM2 read successfully via SCARD
>
> This occurred even before loading SP2. As you can see in line 5 that
> after PC/SC was initialised SCardEstablishContext still failed and
> that no smart card manager service could be found. However, when I
> check the the services from the control panel, I see that the Smart
> Card manager is running. I have also done the "scardsvr reinstall"
> command, but to no avail.
>
> Can anyone help me in this regard?
>
> Thanks!
> William Dicks

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