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I want to use a smart card reader to access my home comp
Posted by navsak10 on June 17th, 2008


I just recently bought a keyboard with a smart card reader on it with the
intentions to use the smart card reader to access my computer. I was
wondering if anyone knew how to make that possible. All I seem to be able to
do is creat a unser account with simply a username an password combo. I would
appreciate the assistance.

Posted by David H. Lipman on June 17th, 2008


From: "navsak10" <navsak10@discussions.microsoft.com>

| I just recently bought a keyboard with a smart card reader on it with the
| intentions to use the smart card reader to access my computer. I was
| wondering if anyone knew how to make that possible. All I seem to be able to
| do is creat a unser account with simply a username an password combo. I would
| appreciate the assistance.

You can't -- sorry.

Smart Cards are used to provide authentication and require provisioning and authentication
through a Domain Controller. Since this is a home computeer, you are NOT a Domain
participant and thus it is not possible to use a Smart Card to authenticate your logon.

--
Dave
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