Hello,

I understand I need to first go through and request the certificate and save
it to my hard drive.  From there, it gets shaky.  I've tried using my
computer name in the browser, adding on the /certsrv at the end, but the
Certificate Server does not come up.  I looked in the "Add/Remove" prog's,
but there's no option for a Certificate Server with XP Pro.  Could anyone
tell me what I'd need to do to generate my own certificates using XP Pro, SP
1?

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Hi,

You can't install Certificate Service on Windows XP. It can only be
installed on server version of Windows.

Mike

"Linking" <Linking@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I understand I need to first go through and request the certificate and
save
> it to my hard drive.  From there, it gets shaky.  I've tried using my
> computer name in the browser, adding on the /certsrv at the end, but the
> Certificate Server does not come up.  I looked in the "Add/Remove" prog's,
> but there's no option for a Certificate Server with XP Pro.  Could anyone
> tell me what I'd need to do to generate my own certificates using XP Pro,
SP1?

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Certificate Services can not be installed on a desktop OS. However you can
create your own self-signed SSL certificate if you want. SelfSSL from the
IIS6 Res Kit lets you do that, or you can use OpenSSL etc.

IIS 6 Resource Kit Tools (you can install these on Windows XP Pro)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&DisplayLang=en

Cheers
Ken

"Linking" <Linking@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I understand I need to first go through and request the certificate and
> save
> it to my hard drive.  From there, it gets shaky.  I've tried using my
> computer name in the browser, adding on the /certsrv at the end, but the
> Certificate Server does not come up.  I looked in the "Add/Remove" prog's,
> but there's no option for a Certificate Server with XP Pro.  Could anyone
> tell me what I'd need to do to generate my own certificates using XP Pro,
> SP1?

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