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SSL Communication

  1. How to download a Certificate and install it into your Client PC

After installing Active Directory® and configuring the CA Server settings, please install a Certificate onto your client PC.
In this section, Windows® XP is used as a client PC.

Brother supports the following certificates;

  1. Self-signed certificate
  2. A Certificate from a CA Server
In this section, a Certificate from a CA Server is used as a Certificate.


Please follow the instructions below.

  1. Downloading a Certificate

    1. Type http://server_ip_address/Certsrv into your browser to access a CA Server. (Where server_ip_address is a CA Server's IP address.)
      E.g. http://192.168.1.4/ (if a CA Server's IP address is 192.168.1.4.)
    2. Enter your "ID" and "password".
      ID : "Administrator"
      Password : The word that you configure in the instruction A-I-9.

      Note

      Do not forget your "ID" and "password".
      You are required to enter them whenever you access a CA Server.


    3. Click "Download a CA certificate, certificate chain, or CRL".
      Select a Task screen

    4. Check "DER" in "Encoding method" and click "Download CA certificate".
      Check Encoding method screen

    5. The screen to download a Certificate appears.
      Download a Certificate into the proper directory in your client PC.
  2. Installing a Certificate into your Client PC

    1. Double click a downloaded file in the instruction B-I-5.
      "certnew.cer" is configured as the default file name.
    2. When the "Certificate Information" screen appears, click "Install Certificate".
      Certificate Information screen

    3. "Certificate Import Wizard" appears and click Next.
      Certificate Import Wizard screen

    4. Check "Place all certificates in the following store", and click Browse....
      Certificate Store screen

    5. "Select Certificate Store" screen appears.
      Select "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" and click OK.
      Select Certificate Store screen

    6. Click Next.
    7. Click Finish.
    8. A "Security Warning" appears and click Yes.
    9. A "Successful" dialog appears and click OK.
    10. Close "Certificate Import Wizard".
    11. After finishing all the instructions above, please go to the next step, C. How to create and download a "CSR".
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