Requesting certificate via certreq.exe to remote CA

Requesting certificate via certreq.exe to remote CA

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Requesting certificate via certreq.exe to remote CA =?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXNC?= 01-24-2008
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXNC?= on January 24, 2008, 12:21 pm
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The following works on the CA server but will not work from my desktop machine:

certreq -submit -config "CA-MACHINE\some-ca-name" cert.req test.cer

From my desktop I get the error:

Certificate Request Processor: This computer was unable to communicate with
the computer providing the server. 0x8000401d (-2147467235)

My goal is to be able to provision a new machine with a SSL cert on a
website. I believe I need to request a certificate with a common name equal
to the machine name to make this work. I am also able to do all of this
manually thru IIS and the Certificate Server website but I need this to be
automated to be practical.

It is a standalone offline CA and is not part of any domain or AD
infrastructure. The CA server is Windows 2003 Server. My desktop is WinXP
Pro SP2.

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?U29oZWls?= on February 21, 2008, 6:41 am
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Dear Chris,

are you able to request a certificate over 'http://CA-MACHINE/certsrv' in
your case?
I have same problem by submiting a request for a user certificate.
Same error: 0x8000401d (-2147467235)

Best regards
Soheil


"ChrisB" wrote:

> The following works on the CA server but will not work from my desktop machine:
>
> certreq -submit -config "CA-MACHINE\some-ca-name" cert.req test.cer
>
> From my desktop I get the error:
>
> Certificate Request Processor: This computer was unable to communicate with
> the computer providing the server. 0x8000401d (-2147467235)
>
> My goal is to be able to provision a new machine with a SSL cert on a
> website. I believe I need to request a certificate with a common name equal
> to the machine name to make this work. I am also able to do all of this
> manually thru IIS and the Certificate Server website but I need this to be
> automated to be practical.
>
> It is a standalone offline CA and is not part of any domain or AD
> infrastructure. The CA server is Windows 2003 Server. My desktop is WinXP
> Pro SP2.

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