certificate error

Hi,

we recently purchased an SBS Suite and installed without a single problem. Now, 3 days later I’m trying to remotely connect to the server using ADNM Console. I enter username and password like I used to the past 3 days but now I get a messagebox telling me ‘The server certificate does not seem to be valid! Either it has an invalid signature or it is expired.’. After that, I get error 0x7FFF3004 (Unable to login as xxxx or connection error). When I try checking Local SSL certificates, I get an emtpy Error Messagebox and than a Certificate Manager with no certificates listed.

I exported the certificate on the server, and tried to reïnstall it on my client, but than I get an empty error messagebox twice and no certificate gets added.

Logging on to localhost works just fine.

What should I do?

Best regards,
Merijn

What if you generate a new certificate (in the AMS Maintanance Tool)?
Also, did you initially generate or import the certificate? (during ADNM installation)

Thanks
Vlk

I tried regenerating a certificate, but it doesn’t solve the problem. I guess the client tries to load a corrupted certificate? Is there a way to delete all certificates manually (without using the console)?

My initial certificate was also generated instead of imported. It shouldn’t expire for 3 years.

You can delete the certificate.

Stop the “avast! Management Server” service (Administrative Tools → Services), delete the file \data\amscert.pem, generate a new certificate using the Maintenance Tool and finally restart the “avast! Management Server” service.

BTW is the system clock set correctly? (including the “year” value)

But the problem isn’t on the server. It’s my remote client which can’t connect. If I run the console on the server, everything is OK.

The only thing I could do was uninstall and reinstall. Hope I don’t have to do this too often…

Anyway, thanks for Your help.

Merijn