I have a network home directory or use Novell, how do I make PGP WDE work properly when logging in?
Some users and administrators do not use the default location of the keyring for your users who have their home directories located on a Novell network share. For the users that get a dialog, I’m assuming it is the one stating that PGP cannot open the keyring files at the specified locations. If so, they should have an option to point to a location on their local machines that PGP will have access to, before looking for the home folder on a network share that hasn’t mounted yet. The users will need to manually move their keys from the network share to a local path, then tell PGP to look in this new location when it starts up pgptray.exe. For users that haven’t installed PGP desktop yet, you can create a “PGPprefs.txt” file and place it in their directory. Inside this text file. place the following text: PublicKeyringFile=”xxxxx” PrivateKeyringFile=”xxxxxx” where “xxxxxx” is the absolute path to where you want the keys to be stored (i.e. PublicKeyringFile=”C:\PGP\pubkey.pkr”). Now when
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