A quick thought: do you have port 443 open to your web server(s) on any firewalls and in W2K network config?


- Jeff


OK, we have need to secure our internal communications between servers.

Plan:  set up inhouse Certificate Authority, and use those certificates
to encrypt communications between IIS and MSSQL servers.  The ultimate
goal is to have encrypted Witango websites available via the internet,
securely accessing restricted SQL databases behind our firewall.  We're
talking serious federal regs here; we've got to be sure the data remains
protected.

We've set up a CA on our intranet webserver and added certificates to
two test servers (IIS5 & MS-SQL2000, both on W2K). The CA seems to be
working OK, and certs seem to install on the servers. However, whenever
we force encryption on the SQL server, we can't access it at all - not
from the web, not from Enterprise Manager, nada. (The data was very
safe, however. ;^D)


No one here has ever done either of these things (inhouse CA or SQL
using certs), so we've no clue where the problem is.  I'm pushing to get
some help on this.

If anyone on the list is interested in consulting on this, please send
me an email.  I'm not making the decisions, and we're notoriously slow
to spend money, so don't count on anything happening soon or at all.
But if I can send some business to one of y'all rather than M$, I'd
rather.

Thanks! j


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