Re: Strange Windows 2000 EFS behavior

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/11/03 

From: "David Cross [MS]" <dcross@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:52:30 -0800

What version of service pack are you running? With Service Pack 3 on
Windows 2000, this should not be an issue. 

--
David B. Cross [MS]
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
http://support.microsoft.com
"Robert Moir" <bofh@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ukhruKU0CHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP09...
> LDeneault wrote:
> > Hi, All:
> >
> > Has anyone encountered similar behavior with EFS in Windows 2000:
> >
> > - The client starts in English and encrypts a file;
> > - The client then changes the language to French and reboots;
> > - The client then logs into the machine, works normally, and then
> > changes the langauge back to English.
> > - The client logs out and then logs back in, and is then unable to
> > remove the encryption on already-encrypted files or place encryption
> > on new files.
> >
> > At that point, the "No encryption recovery policy" error is displayed.
> >
> > My best guess is that the OS is somehow altering the user's
> > certificate when the regional settings are changed.  Could it be on
> > account of export restrictions?
>
> Never heard of this one but export restrictions and france rings a bell.
Can
> you set it to other country settings - for example french canadian would
> still have french language settings if need be, and see if that reproduces
> this issue or if it goes away?
>
>

Relevant Pages