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  • Tuesday, December 04, 2012 5:13 PM
     
     
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    I have a windows 7 machine not part of the domain that I've installed a user certificate on. Currently this certificate is used for VPN authentication and I would like to use it to access file shares as well. The certificate is from the domains CA, so I don't have to worry about 3rd party certificates.

    In addition to adding it to the local certificate store, I used credential manager and imported it in there. When I try to access the file shares I receive an error message stating that it was unable to find the remote machine. When I review the event logs of the server I could see no connection attempts. If I modify credential manager to use domain username and password I am able to access the file shares.

    Am I missing a step either on the server or client to configure this correctly?

     

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  • Wednesday, December 05, 2012 6:35 AM
     
     
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    Please confirm with your IT stuff if the CA can pass the file authentication.

    Meanwhile, regarding CA issue, it is better to post in Server Forum.
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversecurity/threads


     
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