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• 04-10-2008, 5:32 PM

  jjmartin Joined on 02-25-2004, 2:37 PM Phoenix, AZ Posts 3

  Client Certificates on XP Pro (IIS 5.1) Reply Contact I am trying to set up a development site where I can work with Client Certificates. I followed the instructions on this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315588 with the exception that I set the site up on my XP workstation and the certificate service was on another machine. I can't get the site to recognize the client certificate that I have installed. To verify everything else was working, I copied the site to the machine that was running the certificate service (central dev server)  and everything worked fine, it picked up my client certificate right away. My local machine has the certificate service machine's CA certificate in its trusted roots.  I have tried it setting the CTL list on the Default Web Site as well with no luck.  I am not understanding how to get my machine as a server to recognize the client certificates i have installed. Any help would be super-awesome. Jeff Martin MCSD C# .NET http://www.jeffmartin.com http://twitter.com/jjmartin

• 04-17-2008, 12:11 AM

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  JaroDunajsky Joined on 04-19-2005, 6:23 PM Redmond Posts 168

  Re: Client Certificates on XP Pro (IIS 5.1) Reply Contact Jeff,  From your description it is not clear if CA certificate is installed in the trusted root of the  "current user" or "local machine" context. You mention "My local machine", but I assume you were referring to your hardware and not the context for which certificate is installed and trusted. Have a look at  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302408.aspx . Step 3 is the one which doesn't appear in the link what you were using You may also want to try out SSLDiag. It is very useful tool to detect various problems related to SSL. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cabea1d0-5a10-41bc-83d4-06c814265282&displaylang=en Good luck  Jaroslav Dunajsky (MSFT, IIS)

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