WCF gets Access denied when the consumer try invoke a WCF service calls hosted on Virtual Machine

Question

Problem

System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityAccessDeniedException : Access is denied.

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Answer 1

Start by enabling WCF tracing on the server. The trace log may contain a meaningful error message. Enable message logging and see if there any obvious differences between the messages that are accepted and those that are not. Although, honestly, I don't see how this can happen in your case.

Answer 2

This is a System.ServiceModel.Security exception so it is probably not a firewall or IIS problem.

Try removing the following code from the client:

  <clientCredentials> 
    <serviceCertificate> 
      <authentication certificateValidationMode="None" /> 
    </serviceCertificate> 
  </clientCredentials> 

And the following code from the server:

  <serviceCredentials>  
    <serviceCertificate  
                findValue="homologCertificate"  
                storeLocation="LocalMachine"  
                x509FindType="FindBySubjectName"  
                storeName="My"/>  
  </serviceCredentials>