wine users - Mar 2007 - Using smart cards with IE6 and Wine?

I have successfully installed Wine 0.9.24 (from Fedora Extras) and IE6
(using IEs4Linux) on Fedora Core 5.  IE6 works and I can browse to
Google, etc.

Now here's the next step and I'm not sure how to proceed.  I have a
smart card reader and I'd like to be able to use the certs on the card
to identify to web sites that require them, using IE.  Normally in
Windows, the ActivClient application has something to get the certs
into IE, but I can't get the version of ActivClient that I have to
install in Wine.

I do have the card reader working in Linux/Firefox (unfortunately some
of the intranet apps are IE only), so if there's some sort of way to
get IE/Wine to access the card though that rather than trying to get
ActivClient (or some other middleware?) installed in Wine that is fine.

david@quanterium.zzn.com wrote:
> Now here's the next step and I'm not sure how to proceed.  I have a
> smart card reader and I'd like to be able to use the certs on the card
> to identify to web sites that require them, using IE.  Normally in
> Windows, the ActivClient application has something to get the certs
> into IE, but I can't get the version of ActivClient that I have to
> install in Wine.
> 
> I do have the card reader working in Linux/Firefox (unfortunately some
> of the intranet apps are IE only), so if there's some sort of way to
> get IE/Wine to access the card though that rather than trying to get
> ActivClient (or some other middleware?) installed in Wine that is fine.
You will not be able to do direct hardware accesses from wine.
I'm not sure how these Smart Cards work and how they are presented under
linux. If their contents appear (or can be made to appear) as files in a
directory, you can map these files to a drive in wine. Hopefully, that
is enough for what you need.

Daniel
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