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Hi,
You wouldn't do that with encryption.
You'd do it with security.
Add a group to the server.
User manager for domains for this...
Put the people's accounts into it who should have access.
More work with the user manager from domains...
Set the security on the files and/or folders that you want to protect to include that group and specifically exclude everyone else.
Right click, choose properties, security on the files and/or folders you want to secure.
Cheers,
Tim.
Hi,
Why do you want to use encryption rather than security? The end result is the same only security is natively supported and you wont need to muck around with keeping the private keys secure.
Here is a good overview..
http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=5387&Key=Internals
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And here's a step by step on many things you can do with EFS. Note: EFS IS available from NT SP6a onwards.
http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/atips/atips24.shtml
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...But I say again... For a file server, you want appropriate security settings rather than encryption. Encryption is great for protecting laptops, but unless you're worried about someone walking away with your fileserver, its not really the best solution.
Cheers,
Tim.
Tim, thanks for the help.
I must say it is hard to find information, the reason for such a request is because my clients are very protective of their data and frown upon the server not being secure from an administrator. I guess upgrading to W2K isneeded.
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