[chef] knife on windows

[Maven User < >]

Hi all - 

I'm struggling to understand what is needed to manipulate the recipes/cookbooks on the chef server.

I have the following configuration:

Ubuntu 11.X VM running chef master 
Ubuntu 11.X VM running chef client
My local windows box running knife

From my local box, I should be able to trigger deployments correct?

I'm also getting this error:

ERROR: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A

I'm guessing this has something to do with the client.pem file I pulled down from the master server.

Any suggestions to either of the two questions above?