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List:       ms-smartcardsdk
Subject:    Re: Resource Manager under Windows 2000
From:       Marc Jacquinot <marc () JACQUINOT ! COM>
Date:       2001-06-18 15:11:22
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Be very careful with the installation of scbase.exe on a W2K machine. The
base components are already part of the system and uninstalling them can
damage W2k and require some serious clean-up. We ran into this problem
recently and ended up in writing our own intelligent installer.

Check out www.cardwerk.com
This site contains a free smart card probing tool that checks over the
Internet whether the smart card base components are installed correctly.
You ca actually check the whole PC/SC communication channel. The tool
remotely reads the ATR and lets you enter data about the card you are
using. When you come back later, the site remembers your card.

Marc



At 10:45 PM 6/18/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Go to Win2K Remove/Add Program manager and check whether you have installed
>smart card based components (scbase.exe) into your system. If so, then you
>have installed scbase.exe accidentally into W2K. This is not necessary as
>PC/SC Resource Manager is already build-in W2k. Scbase.exe is for Win98 and
>ME only.
>
>I remember someone have already mentioned how to resolve this problem in
>this newsgroups. You may want to check.
>
>Rdgs,
>Richard Kwok
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SmartCardSDK [mailto:SmartCardSDK@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM]On Behalf
>Of Andy Calvert
>Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:53 PM
>To: SmartCardSDK@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
>Subject: Resource Manager under Windows 2000
>
>
>I am running Windows 2000 with SP2.
>
>I have a PCSC reader and driver installed (Utimaco reader via USB). This
>reader and driver work fine under Windows 98.
>
>When my program calls SCardEstablishContext() to then SCardListReaders() I
>get SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE, which tells me that the resource manager is not
>running.
>
>When I go to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Service I see that the
>Smart Card Resource Manager has a Startup Type of Automatic. If I try to
>start it manually I get the message 'Error 1068: The dependency service or
>group failed to start'.
>
>
>Do I need to do something different under Windows 2000 before I can get a
>context ?
>
>
>Andy Calvert
>
>Security Development Manager
>Tel:     01925 882074
>Fax:     01925 882075
>E-mail:  Andy.Calvert@Mondex.com
>
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