iis security: hello, company for which I'm working, is using IIS5.0 and certificate authority for webpages that supports our customers, yesterday I tried to create cert via intranet and something goes wrong, after attemp to contact cert authority any computer says that there is unexpected problem with CA server, if you list details there are only two sentence
1st: Contact your system administrator (but what if you're system administrator?
2nd: Creation object CertificateAuthority.Request failed. (this is something what I can see but what's the reason?

I tried everything what I know(reinstaling CA, instaling CA to another PC, some howtos from microsoft webpages and some howtos from non-microsoft webpages and one voodoo solution(try to downgrade IE to version 5.5) but without succe

I'm using Windows 2000 Server, SP4 and here is no problem with hardware or net infrastructure because many applications are still running

We need to get the actual underlying error. For the webpage that's being
requested, please open it (on the certificate server) using Notepad and at
the top you should see a line that reads:

On Error Resume Next

Comment this line out by inserting a single quote ' so that the line reads:

' On Error Resume Next

and reload the page. If you get a nasty VBScript error that reports a "type
mismatch session()" then you need to re-enable session state for that web
application ('/certsrv/' or whatever it's called). You can do that via the
IIS MMC Snapin -> Directory Properties -> Directory -> Configuration -> App
Settings -> Enable Session State

If you get a different error, please post the details here.

Cheers
ken



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: hello, company for which I'm working, is using IIS5.0 and certificate
authority for webpages that supports our customers, yesterday I tried to
create cert via intranet and something goes wrong, after attemp to contact
cert authority any computer says that there is unexpected problem with CA
server, if you list details there are only two sentences
: 1st: Contact your system administrator (but what if you're system
administrator?)
: 2nd: Creation object CertificateAuthority.Request failed. (this is
something what I can see but what's the reason?)
:
: I tried everything what I know(reinstaling CA, instaling CA to another PC,
some howtos from microsoft webpages and some howtos from non-microsoft
webpages and one voodoo solution(try to downgrade IE to version 5.5) but
without succes
:
: I'm using Windows 2000 Server, SP4 and here is no problem with hardware or
net infrastructure because many applications are still running.
:
: Any help welcomed.