Using a Client Application with SSL/TLS

Whether a Client connection should use SSL or TLS is determined on a user basis. In order to use the client application's certificate to connect to the Server, you will need to specify that the user in question should connect using SSL.

Client Certificate Requirements: The Client computers must have a valid trusted root authority certificate. This may be in the Local Computer's certificate store, in which case the certificate can be used by all users, or in the current user's certificate store, in which case it can be used by the current user only. In either case, it must be in the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" certificate folder

To configure SSL or TLS

  1. Verify that the prerequisites are in place and the client certificate has been correctly configured.
  2. On the Windows client computer, log in as the user you want to configure, and open the registry editor.
  3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Laserfiche\Client8\Profile\IPDatabase.
  4. From the Edit menu, point to New and select String.
  5. Give the value the same name as your repository name, and set its value to the fully-qualified domain name of your Server computer. (For example: MachineName.Domain.com.)
  6. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Laserfiche\Client8\Profile\RepositoryNameSettings, where RepositoryName is the name of your repository.
  7. From the Edit menu, point to New and select String.
  8. Name the value "UseSSL" and set its value to yes.
  9. Close the registry editor. You will need to repeat for each user you want to configure.

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