how can I get the NTFS fileowner?

Anon

I just wrote my first PHP app (a simple directory searching page for an FTP server) – it works great, but I'd like to display the uploader's name next to each file. Unfortunately, it seems that the fileowner() function always returns zero on Windows (?), and even if that worked I couldn't resolve it to a username because it appears that posix_getpwuid() and the rest of the Posix extensions are not available for Windows(?). I know how to get the NTFS fileowner in 'C' - if there’s no other solution, I guess I could write my own PHP extension - not exactly sure how difficult that is, though - any ideas on any of this?

Anon

For all files that are uploaded, won't they just be owned by the account under which the server is running?

Anon

That would be true of most of the "third party" FTP servers you can get, but it's definitely not true for the Microsoft IIS FTP server that comes with Win2K Server Edition. To make accounts for new FTP users, I actually make a new Windows login for the user - then when they log in to the FTP server, they actually run as that user. I wasn't sure I liked that at first, but it is a pretty cool system. For one thing I can see who uploaded any file by looking at its owner, but more imporatantly I can set up directory permissions such as "owner delete", etc. This setup will allow uploaders to delete & rename files - regardless of where they are located - but they cannot delete files uploaded by other users.