COPY doesnt work from local to mapped drive

gloveside45

Hi, so I almost want to just take my computer and dispose of it off the top of a 40 story building, but then that isnt very productive is it? Instead I have come to the masters for help.

here is my problem:

I'm running apache 2 on windows xp (dont start), with PHP 4.4-dev running.

Here is my PHP script:

copy("C:/somedirectory/somefile", "Z:/destinationfolder/somefile");

(VERY SIMPLE EH!, IT DIDNT USE TO BE)

The C is local (windows partition), but the Z is mapped to a network folder on \server\somefolder[/I]

I cant copy C to Z as the example illustrates or vice versa. If Z in the example above was changed to C, I would be able to (copy C to C) no problem. Now I can browse Z and copy and paste manually (drag and drop, etc...) as persmissions are all fine.

I use to get an error with PHP 4.3.7 which stated : unable to open a stream permission denied (or something to that effect). When i upgraded to 4.4-dev I stoped receiving the error, but I still don't get the result I'm looking for.

I don't think it's a permission issue because I can easily drag and drop from C to Z via explorer and vice versa.

PLEASE HELP ME MASTERS OF PHP, IVE LOOKED EVERYWHERE EVEN IN THE MANUAL - TO NO AVAIL, NOW I SEEK YOUR GUIDANCE - THX!

unreal128

Windows makes this very transparent but the underlying mechanism used to copy it to an SMB/CIFS (Windows) share and to a local drive and very different. One thing I would try doing it copying the file by an exec() call to see if that even works. For example...

exec("copy c:\thisfile z:\thatfile");

If that works, you can assume it is an inherent issue in the PHP copy() call and most likely is related to SMB/CIFS compatibility with the copy function. If that doesn't work, then I would suspect a permissions issue by whatever is running the PHP server (most likely Apache.)

Beware: If you do plan on using exec(), be careful as this can open you to attacks. Make sure all input passed to exec is cleaned of special operators (eg. | ; [ ] ( ) .)

bastien

We ran into this at work, too. The issue is that the mapped drive (likely not on the same machine) needs to be part of a windows domain. The apache user then needs to be joined to that domain to be able to see the netwrok share. Only then can you try this...