Re: Accessing SMB (Samba perhaps) resources

From: Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:39:53 +0000
Subject: Re: Accessing SMB (Samba perhaps) resources
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Why can't you just mount the share on-the-fly when they enter the username and pass? On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 06:11, Howard Miller wrote: > Hi, > > I want to be able to manipulate files that are on my samba file server from > my PHP application. These shares are not normally mounted on my web server > and it would be inconvenient and yet another administative maintenance task > to do so. > > So... I want to be able to present a form to the user where they can type a > URL (eg, //my.sambaserver/myshare/some/directory), a username and a > password and for PHP to be able to manipulate the files therein. > > Maybe this is easy, but I can't see how to do it!! Any help appreciated. > > Thanks!! -- Adam Voigt adam@kotisprop.com

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