Roll out client certificate from Windows

Hi,
We have recently begun using Macs in our Windows Enviroment and are having problems with our wireless. It is 802.1x with Network Policy Server as RADIUS. To connect you need correct user credentials and machine certificate that is rolled out through GPO.
Is there a way to roll out the certificate to our Macs also? If it's necessary to connect them to our domain, that isn't a problem.
The Macs are running Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
//Robert

You can use the Profile Manager feature of OS X Server, and create a profile that retrieves a certificate via SCEP or RPC from your CA. This profile can then be downloaded or pushed to Mac clients that are enrolled in the profile manager.

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All except one. The page which is supposed to load the applet pops a dialog stating 'Identification required. Please select certificate to be used for authentication', and presents a list of zero certificates.
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I've done a fair amount of research for this (including in this forum) and see that this appears to be a chronic difficulty with applets. What makes it worse is that I don't think I can use the standard workaround, which is to download the applet from a different host/virtual host, because the applet needs to communicate with the web service. Since we have the additional layer of Tomcat container-managed user authentication, the applet needs to be communicating with the server using the same session token as everything else.
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BTW . . . I would hate to drop support for Firefox, but if someone has an IE-only solution, I'll take it. Unfortunately, I reckon a Firefox-only solution would not fly.
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This eliminates the possibility that it is a JVM issue. However after reading your message further I am afraid
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due to the client authentication, my browser (Firefox, IE7) refuses to even download the applet.
I went to your site, and I can see your applet in both Firefox and IE6. However, I don't believe your site is set up >quite like mine, because it appears I can run your applet whether I have imported your X509 certificate or not. What I >did was:If that is true we are all dead :) No I think you just missed the cert in the IE databse. It doesn't have to be in the
Applet database to function. Surprise!
Check your IE/tools/internet options/content tab/certificates/trusted root certification authorities.
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If you click on a component in the view and then on the view and type "dumpgobs" it shoud write out some data about the current graphics objects so you can see it has complete read/write access..
Further it opens up a complete NIO server ands starts listening for connections on a random port
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On my client machine, I have a certificate which was generated using OpenSSL and the ca.crt file listed. Testing >shows that the server is requiring a certificate from the client, and the web browser is always providing it.
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Sorry but I am afraid that is not much help.
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Dennis
Posted Date : 2005-07-28 19:55:50.0Good Luck!
Sincerely:
(T)
Edited by: tswain on 23-Jul-2008 10:07 AM

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