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EFS with W2K and XP

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by krishnamoorthy_rl

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With a windows 2000 server and XP desktop is it possible to have group-wide encryption using EFS.
eg. if I have EFS in a W2K server and 5 users in a group, can they share encrypted files. Furthermore how can the encryption be replicated on a backuptape?

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by rkelly

Hi,

you cannot encrypt a set of files for group access. EFS only allows the individual who encrpted the data and any specified EFS File Recovery Agents to view an encrpted file.

The following lines are straight from the Windows 2000 Server help files.

Only the user who encrypted the file can open it.

You cannot share encrypted files. EFS is not for distributing private data.

Hope that helps

by krishnamoorthy_rl

Multi user encryption is possible with EFS, users have to add the other users certificates to allow access to encrypted files.
This doesn't solve the issue of an easy "drag and drop" multi user encryption.

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