According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd871137.aspx if the Scan Server is running in “authenticated mode” you need to use a client cert to authenticate to the scan server for managing it.
My guess if you need to issue a client-authentication cert to your user account. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill Sent: Friday, 9 January 2015 1:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Windows Scan Management Anybody have any experience with using Windows Distributed Scan Management? We installed the role(s) on a new 2012 R2 Server and are trying to test it. Setting up the Scan Server went fine, but when trying to setup a Scan Process, we are getting an error about the client certificate. The message is: "Windows cannot connect to the specified scan server. This can happen if the server name is incorrect, if the Distributed Scan Server service on the server is stopped, or if the scan server rejects the certificate used to connect to the server. Check the certificate and ensure that the Distributed Scan Server service is Started." There is a button in the MMC to select the client certificate, but it just says there are none available. I can’t find any documentation on what it wants here. The only thing I have found at all on the internet is this post in the TechNet Forums, where several people have the exact same problem, but no solutions (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b93de1d0-2dc5-4edb-8659-fe0816bbd8b6/scan-managment-certificate-requirements?forum=winserverprint). There is a server certificate for the Scan Server and that seems fine, but it seems that it also wants the client to have some kind of certificate. It doesn’t matter if I do this from Scan Management on the same server or from a desktop, I get the same client certificate problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bill Mayo
