Endpoint Encryption

I am currently working on a product that needs to use some specific PGP commands.  The code is running on Windows server 2008 using IIS7.  When the user chooses a certain action, I need to encrypt or decrypt a file before processing it.

The problem that I am having is that when I logon to the server, I can run any pgp command directly through command line and it works, but when I have the code call PGP, I get the following error:

"Error: no personal documents directory found"

Is it not possible to automate PGP on a server that is running an application?  If it is possible, what am I doing wrong that is stopping PGP from working?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

PGP Command Line can work well in such environments. It seems as if you are running the web service under a user account that does not have a "My Documents" folders. PGP Command Line tries to create (empty) keyring files on the first start in the "My Documents/PGP" folder if none exist. You need those keyring files to store key material. Since the user you are running command line with does not have such a folder, you need to specify the keyring files on the command line manually (--private-keyring --public-keyring). Or you use the --home-dir directive to specify where PGP Command Line should look for a prefs file or keyring files.

regards
.andi

Andi,

Thanks for the help.  I put --home-dir and specified the path at the end of my call to PGP.  Now if I try to do a command like --version, it works.  But if I try to encrypt something, I get an error of "The system cannot find the file specified." I don't know if this is a PGP error or system error.  The file that I am trying to encrypt is there and has its full path specified, so I don't know what is going on with it.  Do you have any idea?

If the path to the file has spaces, use quotes  on the "PATH".

Also check all the encrypt command parameters are there, check the manual:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/resources/sites/BUSINESS/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/4000/DOC4570/en_US/pgpCmdline_1020_usersguide_en.pdf