#20831 [Com]: UNC paths do not work.

ID: 20831 Comment by: cg@gordimer.net Reported By: harry@rhsoft.net Status: Feedback Bug Type: IIS related Operating System: Windows 9x/2000/XP PHP Version: 4.3.0RC2, 4.3.0 Release New Comment: Same setting runs perfectly here. I think this is not a PHP but an IIS issue. Try to check 'check that file exists' in the IIS control panel where you enter the path to php.exe. If this checkbox is not set, the context of php.exe will look for the file. In a CGI environment, this is LOCAL\SYSTEM - which usually does not have access to the remote server. Because of this CLI works (it runs with the permissions of the user logged in) and local UNC work too (LOCAL\SYSTEM as sufficent rights). If I had a CVS account I'd change this to a documentation problem. Christoph Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-16 05:00:31] msopacua@php.net The UNC syntax has been verified and fixed, which was the original bug. Please try to map the path as a network disk and access that. If that doesn't work either, there's no bug here, but a local config error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-16 03:35:57] alexws@php.net Confirming the bug with the PHP 4.3.0 release. Also found strange behaviour when opening files by UNC under WinNT5/IIS5/PHP4.3.0. When I open file //proxy/somepath/... (on the server) by the UNC, it works fine. But when I try to open //main/somepath/... (on other server, permissions for browser are set accordingly) it fails. Also it fails opening files by UNC, except for the IIS server machine itself. Suggestions? P.S. Reopened the bug... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-11 11:29:25] fuh@eduhi.at i have replaced the dll (only one copy), but it dont work for me. i will setup a second testinstall on another "clean" server. maybe its a iis config problem... i will check this now. thank for your helps... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-11 09:26:23] iliaa@php.net I've tried the latest snap on WinXP using cli including "../../file.txt" & "\\\\server\path\file.txt" and both works flawlessly. The few people I spoke to also didn't not encounter a problem opening/including files via relative or UNC path. Therefor, I must conclude that the problem you are seeing is due to some issue on your end, possible left over dlls from older PHP, IIS config params and so on... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-11 09:25:14] msopacua@php.net The CLI version should work, but to be sure, remove all old copies of 'php4ts.dll'. The fix is in this module. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/20831 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20831&edit=1