Re: Unable to open encrypted files

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Hi,

This any help?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457065.aspx

Regards Colin.

"Bernard Parrett" wrote:

The user has just changed the password on the pc today.
Seems she thought that changing this would help her.

The machine shows her certificate, but as the password change I am not
sure if it is Ok any more even though she changed it back to the
original password

Regards
Bernard

Colin wrote:
Hi,

Has this workstation (accessing the files) had the username/password changed
? Is the EFS certificate still on this machine ?

Regards Colin.

"Bernard Parrett" wrote:

We recently concerted our small office server from Windows server 2003
std to Small Business Server 2003 SP1
This was done using the Swing Migration method, there was supposed to be
no special security on files or folders, however after 2 days I was
called by one of the users who is unable to open their files and
folders, it turns out that this users computer had some strange setting
where some files were were being encrypted, this has been solved but we
can not open the previously encrypted files as the server was
re-installed as new.

I have a full backup of the old server but don't want to restore this to
the server just to retrieve these few files.
is there any method to recover these files without a full restore.

Regards
Bernard Parrett
Si-Tech


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