Win32 UNC and PHP (fwd)

Hi there We've the same problem as the guy below descript to you (env: Windows 2000 / IIS5). We've migrated some projects from php3 to php4. Now, all functions whit an UNC seams to have problems if they tray to access a file (any function) on a share (-> UNC). If the file is on a local drive, everything works fine. So my actual question is: Because we've more then one customer whit the same problem (and as it looks we are not the only one) we like to solve the problem by changing the code. Because none of us has ever been in a PHP project I ask you if the problem is solvable for someone new in PHP-source-programming (we've some experience programmers in C / C++ ). Probably one of you already knows where the problem is or how it could be solved, time- or source- amount we need to change? Some hint's, other persons to talk to ??? Thx Martin :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=7401 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: [2000-10-23 04:14:54] caminada.b@agri.ch Our websites are on a central storage unit. We use UNC to access the files (\\server\folder\file) With PHP3 everything worked fine. Now we're trying to install PHP4 but it seems, that it doesn't like UNC fileshares. We've made some testing and the script is executed if it resides on a local drive. >From the UNC share, IIS is reporting a CGI Error and if I try to start it directly with perl.exe from the command prompt there is no output. The same script on a local drive works. [2000-10-30 11:30:37] derick@php.net Can you explain what perl.exe has to do with it? Dev List: UNC paths, are they supported? [2000-10-30 12:29:49] derick@php.net Stanislav reported: -- AFAIK, no. I fear it would be serious PITA to support them too, though I might be wrong. If someone who know how UNC pathes behave will look on this, maybe we'll support them. Did I say I hate Windows file naming system? -- I totally agree with him... I wanted to change it to feature request, but the bug system does not allow this. [2000-10-30 18:35:54] sniper@php.net reclassified as feature request. --Jani