Certificates

[Sarit]

I want to use the Certificates feature of the IIS. I installed the option
pack with this feature successfully. When I want to start working with it
I have two main problems:
1. The service "Certificates Authority" fails to start and I get this
error in the Event Viewer: The Certificate Server did not start: Unable to
initialize the database connection for Saritk. The error code is 0xffffffff.
(which is the user name I gave in the installation).

2. When I try to enter the utilties from the CertSrv site on my machine
I get an error : Unable to access the database, err code=e78.

What am I doing wromg?

[Michael Howard]

(1) and (2) are related, (2) is because the service did not start in (1).


as an experiment start certsrv, using the following command-line:

certsrv -z

this will start it as a console app. if this works, my guess is you don't
have the database connection setup correctlt. you need to add the db connection
as a system-wide setting, not a per-user setting.

"Sarit" <sarit_k@moding.com> wrote:
>
>I want to use the Certificates feature of the IIS. I installed the option
>pack with this feature successfully. When I want to start working with it
>I have two main problems:
>1. The service "Certificates Authority" fails to start and I get this
>error in the Event Viewer: The Certificate Server did not start: Unable
to
>initialize the database connection for Saritk. The error code is 0xffffffff.
>(which is the user name I gave in the installation).
>
>2. When I try to enter the utilties from the CertSrv site on my machine
>I get an error : Unable to access the database, err code=e78.
>
>What am I doing wromg?