CAPABILITY NetworkControl problem

Thank you for your replies.  I really do appreciate this forum since for me it's the best place to get answers for Symbian development questions.

I got a manufacturer's developer certificate from Nokia. Actually, I am still not quite certain what capabilities this certificate grants me even though I followed the instructions at symbiansigned.com carefully.  I suspect that all this certificate grants me is the basic set of capabilities that I get with a regular (non-manufacturer dev certificate).  I need NetworkControl capability for the application since it uses TCP/IP to connect to the Internet.

On the second step of the Certificate Request Wizard, it asks for an ACS Publisher ID.  Since we don't have one (yet), I checked the 'No' radio button and then it asks me to select a 'Private Key file', and for a password, which I supplied.  Then on step 4, it lists the capabilities that I am requesting.  NetworkControl is not one of the capabilities listed here.

I used this very same certificate request file (.csr) to request the manufacturer's certificate from Nokia.  So now I'm thinking that since step 4 only had the basic set of capabilities listed (I selected all of them) then the .csr file only included that basic set and does not include NetworkControl as a capability and so the Nokia certificate doesn't include that.

My question now is -- if all that is true, then how do I get the Certificate Request Wizard to show NetworkControl capability on step 4?  Must I supply an ACS Publisher ID in order for NetworkControl to be listed in Step 4 of the Wizard?  Or does a manufacturer's dev cert automatically contain the basic plus the extended set of capabilites and is not dependent on the .csr file?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dennis

Hi msa and mudhalvan,

I am trying to understand what capabilities I need for TCP/IP  I am not trying to do anything unusual--just a normal socket connection.  I read the following in the SDK documentation in an article titled 'Symbian OS changes for platform security':

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For instance, a process needs the NetworkServices capability to open a TCP or UDP socket. Hence a process also needs the NetworkServices capability to transfer a TCP or UDP socket. Similarly, a process needs the NetworkControl capability to open an IP or ICMP socket. Hence a process also needs the NetworkControl capability to transfer a IP or ICMP socket.
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I suppose it's my ignorance of the TCP/IP protocol, but doesn't this mean that I need NetworkControl capability for a "normal" socket connection?  In any event, I have not been able to install the application on an N80 device without the "Required application access not granted" error during the install.  I tried removing the CAPABILITY statement from the .mmp file (which I read is equivalent to CAPABILITY None), and the application installs, but always times out on a TCP/IP connect attempt.

Thanks for your help,
Dennis