Windows network paths

[robandrews]

Hi all.

New to Php and Apache so bare with me.

I need to access a log file on a separate machine (win2k pro). I have Apache 1.3.29 and PHP 4.3.4 running on win2k advanced server with the services using a domain account with access privileges to the specific share on the target machine.

However, the script just doesn't seem to be able to access the file using domxml_open_file() or the file_exists() function. I've tried mapping a drive to the share i.e F:\network\file and full UNC paths i.e \machine_name\c...\network\file (with and without realpath() ).

Am I going wrong somewhere or has anybody any tips as to get this working?

Cheers
Rob

[dalecosp]

FWIW, and not much help I imagine, you might try //machine_name/c/... etc

The manual's kinda confusing on this one, eh?

On windows, use //computername/share/filename or \computername\share\filename to check files on network shares.

And then...

Note: This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the servers filesystem.

However, I'd think that a "network file system" should be equivalent to "server's file system", so I dunno.

Have you tried calling the file with fopen(), just to see if you got an error or it returned true?

[robandrews]

actualy trying fopen() helped. Showed that it didn't like the windows \ after all. Changed it to / and the mapped path worked.

Thanks

Rob