Warning: At my work we ran into a problem transferring EFS-encrypted files. A coworker had a 500MB encrypted file he was trying to copy to our main file server. The file server is a slightly older Compaq Proliant 6000, but it's very stable. Every single time we tried copying the file to the server, the server would blue screen. We've never seen this behavior before, and we've copied some very large files back and forth without issues in the past. It only happens with EFS files, and it's a consistent problem. It happens every time, regardless of which machine you're copying the files from. We haven't tried copying the same file to another server yet, but I still thought it was a bit strange.
...I'm not sure if this will apply to other environments, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway. -----Original Message----- From: leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:00 PM To: Subject: MS EFS Question -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Quick (and perhaps easy?) question for the MS folks. If you have a file on an NTFS volume that is encrypted (with EFS) and you transfer it to a fat32 partition what happens? What happens if you copy the EFS file from one NTFS volume to another? I am going to guess that in the 1st case it decrypts the file (not sure). I am pretty sure that in the 2nd case it retains the encryption. Can anyone quickly verify? I don't have a fat32 partition to test on. In the meantime I will try out the 2nd scenario and you are welcome to mail me off-list if you are curious (unless someone answers it on list). Thanks guys (and ladies of course). Cheers, Leon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPD0RqtqAgf0xoaEuEQJiZwCgw7TNQs9wVbIZdxAdSZGR8J6D3IoAoNZz SUCaNmqheFn+HZIPhSYY+Btp =Ptbl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----