Windows Service with SSL not working.

[frogga]

Hi

I've created a Tcp Server that uses the SslStream for communication. It works fine when I run the application as a console application but stalls when I call AthenticateAsServer() on the SslStream:

Heres my code:

TcpClient client;

SslStream networkStream = new SslStream(client.GetStream(), false);

X509Certificate serverCertificate = new X509Certificate(@"C:\program files\Test.pfx", "password");

networkStream.AuthenticateAsServer(serverCertifica te, true, SslProtocols.Tls, true); //Just Hangs Here

Does anybody have any ideas as to why this would happen when it runs as a windows service? The service has LocalSystem privileges.

Cheers

F

[PRR]

What exactly happens when it executes as windows service? do you log error?

[frogga]

The service will continue to run as normal and keeps accepting client connections. Its the processes running the server/client connection that just hang when the server calls AuthenticateAsServer.

I've got the service to write to the event log before and after this call. The "before" is written to the event log but not the "after". No error logs or anything else is written to the event log so each process is just sitting there. Could it be a permissions problem with the certificate store? The certificates are on the local machine but with the service not attached to an account maybe it can't get to the store. This is my first time dealing with windows services and ssl so its all a bit new for me.

Cheers

F

[PRR]

Permission problem may be there... could you post some sample code ? and maybe flow of your code ?