>I hope someone can help with this one. I finally recieved my new
>certificate from Thawte today and installed it onto my RHSS 2.0. It
>works great in Netscape 4 and IE 4. However, when I try to connect via
>Netscape 3.0, I get a "database error, unable to connect message."
>
>Last year I had done an upgrade from Thawte on my Netscape 3 because the
>browser certificates expired. This was a known problem and easily fixed
>right from the Thawte site. Now when looking at Thawte for the solution
>to this problem they offer this as an explaination:
>"Some servers are shipped with Thawte''s old Server CA root.
This is a
>problem for Navigator 3.x, which have the new Thawte Server CA root
>(after users have manually installed it). Netscape compares its copy of
>the CA root with the server''s copy and gets "confused"
when it sees that
>the roots have differing expiry dates. The result is that the Navigator
>user gets the warning that there is a "database error" and that no
>connection to the server is possible."
>
>Their solution is to upgrade the Thawte CA in the server and offer links
>for Netscape FastTrack, IIS and Website Pro. No mention about Apache or
>RHSS though.
>
>One of my biggest secure server customers is a die-hard NS 3 user, so
>ignoring the problem isn''t an option.
NS 3.0 is obsolete IMHO. I have one friend with it, he cant seem to make it
work right (upgrading the cert server root et all). To be honest I would
have to
say tough wingnuts, time to upgrade to 4.X. Using NS 3.X will cause lots of
problems in other areas as well.
-seifried