Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/02/07 10:37

Florian Erfurth wrote:
> 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.
>

That wasn't his point. His point was, if there isn't a way to access
the file without PHP, PHP can't "magically" create a way to access it.
PHP can only automate what can be done manually.

>> 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.
>

I hope you're not trying to do this "live" every time the web page is
loaded...

> Thank you very much!
> cu Floh


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