EFS nightmare

[WiseMan]

Greetings,
ok guys i'm calm i'm easy you make me wish that english was my first
language but what can i do, i have nothing to do with it but if things will
keep go wrong with me like usual i will stop using computers.
i will try askin another question and i hope this time will be fully
understood! i am goin to simplify the problem in plane english as much as i
can:
i have 3 computers all connected to one local network.
one of the 3 pcs is the server and uses the built-in administrator account
with password.
the second one is called "pc-two" which use an administrator account called
"two" with no password
the third one called "the fat pc". it uses an administrator account with
password.
now suppose i creat a regular text file called test.txt in the fat pc, i
then
encrypted it then i made it shard (read only). this file wont be accessable
from the pc-two ofcourse. ok what i should do now? yes u will advice me to
use
the command line to transfere the certificate and the private key to that
computer
Cipher/R: filename ....done
i went to the pc-two and install the two files (.CER and .PFX) ....done!!
with a big stupid smile on my face i double clicked the test.txt file
Oops nothing happend, nothin but the same ugly message "can't open the file"
restarting the computer didn't work
login in as built-in administrator and install the certificate again didn't
work too
now what? some one please tell me it's just CRAZY ((((((

 

[Roger Abell]

You need to have a domain environment in order to
access EFS files stored on a remote computer.

I am not sure why you said you used cipher /r as that is
what is used to generate a new recovery agent cert/key

Without a common domain for the machines about the best
that you will be able to do is to export the cert/key from
one account on machine A, and then import this into an
account on machine B and into an account on machine C.
Then, wrapper up an encrypted file using NTbackup in order
to move it from one machine to another, when after it is restored
to unwrapper it you will be able to access it (assuming the same
OS at the same service pack level).