Problem with the DNI reader

[defaultuser]

@cinusara said in Problem with DNI reader:

if I have windows 10 pro x64 would it be necessary to have java installed, on the police page it says yes but they are very old and only up to windows vista

Which ones are very old? The pages? I don't understand.
The truth is that the instructions leave much to be desired when they are supposed to be for the general public, even in the eyes of someone with a little more idea it seems like they were made very reluctantly, and it leaves me perplexed being a national project.

If the clarifying information is messed up by the rest of the web, in the tax office and in a thousand places:
"...To install certificates in the Java store instead of in the browser's store the steps to follow are:..."
This is from https://www.viafirma.com/faq/es/instrucciones-para-instalar-certificados-en-el-almacen-de-java-en-windows/
And it turns out that java is another alternative option to the browser for storing certificates, and surely on the dnie website they make a mess that you don't know what they are talking about at each moment

[defaultuser]

Come on, with the certificates in the browser you don't need Java...

[cinusara]

Well, I'm looking in Chrome, in security and managing certificates on the personal screen, I don't have any certificates. I've tried importing them from the DNI installation software and they don't appear in the personal tab, why??

[defaultuser]

@fassou ¿de cual versión es tu DNIe?

[_Neptunno_]

Is it possible that the DNI certificate has expired? I had no idea that they expired until I went to use it a couple of years ago to submit an application, I bought a reader and there was no way it would work. I found out that the certificates expire every two years, so you should go to a police station to check, in principle if it is a recent DNI (or I don't know what specific model) you could update it in a kind of machine by yourself, but if not you should make an appointment for them to do it for you.

I tell you this in case this is the problem... mostly because no matter how many readers you use, if the certificate has expired you won't be able to do anything.

Regards!!

[cinusara]

the DNI is up to date when the reader did not read it, I went to the police to renew the certificates a week ago, I do not know what version it is, but it must be updated

[Fassou]

@defaultuser I now have the 3.0 as I suppose most do, but before I had the first DNIe (the top two in the photo).

And I have used both without any problem with the same reader, with the known limitations that I talk about above, as a way of advice to use it easily (original and updated Windows 10 / W11, and connect the Smart Card reader a few seconds before opening Microsoft Edge, so that it is configured, a matter of drivers that Windows itself already has and so on).

Simply using another browser, or using it on another OS that is not Windows, requires extra effort and configuration, or it may make the task impossible.

Salu2!