php.ini and shared drive access

ChetUbetcha

What are the server and/or php.ini settings that need to be changed in order for me to read a directory or open a file from a shared drive on my network? I have a Windows web server at one location and a Windows file server at another. They're on the same network, obviously, but I cannot get opendir or anything else to read the files/directories from the shared drive. I can do this with local files on the web server, but I read somewhere that the file server has to be setup with certain settings.

Thanks!

Kudose

Maybe allow_fopen_url ?

bradgrafelman

What you need to do is:

Change the service on your Windows server so that the webserver (Apache or IIS) runs under a specific user account that you can give access to on other servers/computers. Usually I have created a new domain user in Active Directory (assuming you're in an AD environment) and configured the service to use those credentials.
Specifically add that user to the ACL for the folder(s) on the other file server so that it has writes to read/write/etc.