Web Certificates failing

[Klae]

Hi,

We have a Netware 5.1 network and we have some users in our education department (we are a borough council) who needs to use digital certificates through IE5.5. With Novell DLU and Workstation manager the digital certificate becomes corrupt and unuseable. Every one of our users cannot use digital certificates in our network. If we give the users a local profile and limit them to only one PC and on that PC disable workstation manager then the certicate works fine. This says to me that it is something to do with the users profile. Now although our fudge-it idea is working we are being pressured to get it working properly by our IT bosses. DOes anyone have any ides on how to succesfully use digital certificates with IE using Roaming profiles in a Novell network? Klae

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[dbryson]

Klae,

Did you ever get a resolution to this. I am having a similar problem where:
1. I install the client certificate on the desktop using the Microsoft Enrollment Control
2. The certificate then works fine
3. Then a log out and log back in occurs.
4. The certificate still shows as being present in Internet Explorer 5.5.
5. But the web server no longer accepts the client certificate as if it is corrupt.

Ideas?

 

[Klae]

We had to give in, in the end and give our two users local profiles and not roaming ones and disabled Dynamic Local User and had to tell the users that no one else can log into their PCs and they will not be able to roam around the office. the digital certificates work fine on their local profiles.

Klae

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[bsod99]

We stumbled upon this ourselves recently. Our Department (about 600 users) is running Netware 6, zfd3.2 and Win2ksp2; the rest of the agency is running AD/Win2ksp2. There users are able to roam and use their certs without re-installing / importing the certs. Ours (as you've indicated are not). Reason: Microsoft stores the certs in AD (or Domain Controllers) to facilitate this. Workarounds? We are currently working with local Novell consulting shop to find software or hardware (tokens) to facilitate roaming. Let you know what we find.