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Shados

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Joined: 10/19/2008

Hi!

I don't know if anyone could give me some insight into this weird behavior. I got my MediaSmart a few weeks ago, and it has been purring along flawlessly.

Now though, something weird started out of nowhere: if I try to access the web interface via http://myservername/, I get a certificate error. Looking at the certificate's details, it is a Go Daddy issued certificate which is only valid for myservername.homeserver.com. Back then, I had looked at it quite carefully: the certificate was some (seemingly) self issued certificate with a very long, randomly generated named (or so it looked like), and it was valid for myservername.homeserver.com, myservername, and some other that I forget. Basically, I could access the server from anywhere using whatever name and it worked (well, any of those 3 anyway), as long as the certificate was installed (and my understanding was that it got installed with the home server client).

Now though, with that new certificate, its only valid for my homeserver.com address, which is awkward. Even more awkward is that this happened out of nowhere.

Does anyone have any idea of what the hell happened?

Thank you very much!

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October 27, 2008 1:52 PM

A certificate generally goes with a single address. If it was issued for myservername.homeserver.com it would not work for myservername.com even if you have set that up. (And you would have to set that up separately.)

...JohnBick

October 27, 2008 5:36 PM

JohnBick said: A certificate generally goes with a single address. If it was issued for myservername.homeserver.com it would not work for myservername.com even if you have set that up. (And you would have to set that up separately.)

Indeed, its what I thought too, but the original certificate (maybe there was 3?) was definately different. I could see by examining it that there were 3 "CN = ..." values, each matching addresses where browsers wouldn't spit out errors if I used.

I actually still have it (though I cannot see the info above). In any case, that isn't really important now, hehe.

What I'm curious about, is how come it changed. The original certificate was something like:

MBA4FE727HDHE.... (you get the idea...)

Now, its a Go Daddy Class 2 Certification Authority one. And I'm wondering why the hell it changed? Because of that now, if I access it on my LAN using the machine's name, browser complain. It didn't use to. It also didn't complain on remote machines (over the internet) where the original certificate was installed (that is, I installed it myself). With this certificate however, only the homeserver.com address works without complains.

Its quite puzzling. I -am- more interested in knowing how come it changed, than in getting this working though. I have worked in IT long enough to know that things like this don't change magically :)

October 27, 2008 5:41 PM

Actually (sorry for the double reply), I'm wondering:

How it works... is it that it uses the Go Daddy certificate for the homeserver.com address, and a self signed, installed during setup, certificate for inside the LAN? If thats the case, it could explain it... but doesn't explain why now accessing the machine by name within my LAN uses the external (Go Daddy) certificate, though.

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