You can get it here.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/efsinfo-o.asp
You should be able to take ownership as local administrator on the machine.
What happens if you copy a file to floppy and try opening on another
machine?
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
:
| Hello Dave,
| I tried with efsinfo from Microsoft TechNet Article ID 243026
| 'Using Efsinfo.exe to determine information about encrypted files'. But
this
| Efsinfo.exe file is not available on my standalone PC. It is clearly
written
| in this article that 'Stand-alone Windows 2000 workstations and servers do
| not display the recovery agent information. The default recovery agent for
| all stand-alone computers is the local Administrator account.'
|
| I couldn't solve this problem using google help.
|
| No files in this folder are encrypted or read only. Only the folder is
| secured. This is applicable to all types of files not just MSoffice files.
In
| the above trial if we move some files in user mode who has secured the
| folder, other users even administrator can't see the contents of these
files.
| This appears to be a good feature of folder protection. But how to make
use
| of this?
|
| Dhuri
|
|
|
| "dhuri" wrote:
|
| > Hello Dave,
| > Sorry that I couldn't reply immediately. For to weeks I wasn't
able
| > to connect to microsoft support forums.
| > I tried your suggestion , but I couldn't get a solution.
| > I tried the following:-
| > This is how one can try the experiment.
| > 1. I logged off 'Administrator' and changed to power user 'self' having
log
| > in password.
| > 2. I made a folder 'SelfData' and kept some Excel , Word and wordpad
files.
| > 3. I right clicked the folder and went to properties.
| > 4. Under 'security' tab I unchecked the check box 'Allow inheritable
| > permissions from parent to propagate to this object.'
| > 5. With this a security dialog flashed asking' you are preventing any
| > inheritable permissions from propagating to this object. What do you
want to
| > do?' I pressed 'Remove' button.
| > 6. At this time under the 'security' tab no owner was shown. I clicked
| > 'Advanced' button.
| > 7. Now a Dialog box 'Access control settings for Network' appeared. In
this
| > under 'Permissions' tab I clicked 'Add' and added power user 'self'.
| > 8. With this a new dialog box appered 'Permission Entry for Network'.
Under
| > 'allow' I checked all check boxes and then clicked OK.
| > 9. Then 'Apply' and 'OK' buttons under ' Access Control Settings for
| > Network..'
| > 10. Then I logged off 'self' and changed to 'Administrator'.
| > 11. I couldn't get direct access to the folder. So under properties I
took
| > the ownership of that folder.
| > 12. I could now see the files in that folder.
| > 13. Now when I tried to open that particular file say Excel file I got
the
| > message ' Excel can not access particular file. The document may be read
only
| > or encrypted.'
| >
| > I MADE A FOLDER "SelfData2' UNDER ADMINISTRATOR AND LOGGED OFF AND
CHANGED
| > TO USER 'self'. I COPIED SOME FILES IN THIS FOLDER AND REPEATED THE
ABOVE
| > PROCEDURE. THIS TIME I COULD OPEN THE FILES.
| >
| > This appears to be very good security feature. But how to decrypt the
files.
| > I have tried with mmc and consoles and tried to import encryption and
| > recovery certificates. But this didn't work.
| >
| > In market there are plethora of third party licensed software for folder
| > security. Why so much complications in Microsoft for a user.
