Re: Re: Accessing SMB (Samba perhaps) resources

No I didn't say that I *wouldn't* run external commands. However I want the operation to be transparent and non-confusing to the user, so they don't get get with error messages from the Unix mount command or something. I just expected a lot of grief/drama doing it that way. I'll give the class a go and see how I get on. Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > On 02/24/2004 04:03 PM, Adam Voigt wrote: >> He said he doesn't want to run commands, which this script does. > > Did he? I read his message again and I could not see where he explicitly > says he does not want to run commands. > > What this class does is to let you access networked remote shares via > Samba without having to mount them on the local file system. > > >>>>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. >>> >>>You may want to try this Samba Web client class that does precisely what >>>you want: >>> >>>http://www.phpclasses.org/smbwebclient > >