Hi all, Some time ago a customer of mine was getting a CryptographicException with message "The Smart card resource manager is not running" when using X509Certificate2 object in a Windows service . This was the call stack at the point of exception: at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.CreateProvHandle...

Hi all, If you call SCardEstablishContext API in a Windows service running under a specific user account (domain\user) or NETWORK SERVICE , you may get the following error on Vista/Server 2008 or Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 : 0x8010001d - SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE - "The Smart card resource manager is not...

Hi all, I'm currently working on the following issue on Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 RTM which doesn't happen on Windows XP SP3 : if a process that reads from a smart card is aborted unexpectedly after a call to SCardBeginTransaction without calling SCardEndTransaction , other instances of...

Hi all, welcome back, I recently had some issues involving PKCS#11 interface on Windows, and it seems quite clear that we don't support it, at least on Windows 2000 & Server 2003, and as far as I know on any other version of Windows: Public Key Interoperability " Hardware Support ... Windows...

Hi, welcome back, Smart Card Redirection on Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client 6.0 may cause SCardGetStatusChange to fail with error 0x8010001d - SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE - "The Smart card resource manager is not running." . When a user connects from her machine A (i.e. Windows XP SP2...