Comments on: Stop False Password Nags from the WHS Client

By: DT

DT — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:50:07 +0000

The “rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr”didn’t work for me either. My dialogue box shows no accounts or passwords for logging into the Windows Home Server, and adding one didn’t help.

My Windows 7 x64 Enterprise SP1 desktop worked just fine until adding some Windows Updates to my WHS box 30 minutes ago. I’ve uninstalled my WHS connector software, and will be deleting my user (via Remote Desktop after ensuring that user’s folder is backed up), but if that does not work, I don’t know what else I’ll be able to do.

By: Roger Noble

Roger Noble — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:04:53 +0000

Thanks a bunch Robert.

The “rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr” tip worked perfectly for me on a Windows 7 Professional machine that had been accessing my Mediasmart WHS for a couple of years, without any problems, until it just started giving me the password message for about the past week. I tried a lot of things including uninstalling and re-installing the WHS connector software, but nothing worked until I found your solution.

By: MeadowsPV

MeadowsPV — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:35:07 +0000

Thank you Phil:
I found your post when searching the internet for [ "Windows Home Server" Your user account does not have the required access permissions to install the security certificate. ]
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resetting the permissions using the following:
[Vista] – verified {32bit}
%SystemDrive%\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys
%SystemDrive% \ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys

1: And remove any / all “Not Inherited” [aka explicit] from this object’s parent’
2: Reset Permissions to rights “Include Inheritable permissions from this object’s parent.” [ tick mark in box ]
3: Replace all existing Inheritable permissions on all decendants with inheritable permissions from this object . [ tick mark in box ]
Apply to: “This folder, subfolders and files.”

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:15:46 +0000

The “rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr”didn’t work for me – I’m running Win7 Ultimate x64 – The entry for my server showed as: ”SERVER\HomeGroupUser$”

I would have thought it should have read – ‘SERVER\Tom” ??
It looks to me as if Win7 x64 is trying to connect to a Homegroup (which doesn’t exist) on my WHS ?

- no amount of removing this entry, re-syncing passwords, uninstalling/reinstalling the connector have worked for me

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By: Nir

Nir — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:16:56 +0000

WOW! The updated method works