Posted by Florian Erfurth on 08/02/07 08:52

ELINTPimp wrote:

> On Jul 30, 12:16 pm, Florian Erfurth <floh-erfu...@arcor.de> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> as a Win-User he has to enter "\\intranet\logons$\wsa01.txt" in explorer
>> in order to open this file.
>> Now I'm writing a php-script on freeBSD. I don't have a idea how to
>> access this file. I already tried following:
>> fopen("//intranet/logons$/wsa01.txt");
>>
>> But the file is not found. I think I have to use samba, am I right? But
>> how should I do that with php.
>>
>> I'm really new in php and today I write the very first time a php-script.
>> I already looked inhttp://www.php-homepage.de/manual/(by the way, this is
>> a good manual! :) ).
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>> cu Floh
>
> If there isn't already a mechanism in place to work between the two
> filesystems (Samba, netapp, even FTP), then it isn't going to work.
> You need to get this resolved before you even start with PHP.
Nope. And my colleague doesn't like to do that "outside" of php-script.

> If, however, you are able to navigate to that directory from your BSD
> machine in the command prompt, for example, you're set. In that case,
> you need to use the same \'s as windows uses, except you have to
> escape them:
>
> \\\\intranet\\logons$\\wsa01.txt
Even that doesn't work. But I've discussed with my colleague and we decided
to use ftp instead of smb.

Thank you very much!
cu Floh

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