Re: RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)

On 5/24/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari <sleepwalker@rahulsjohari.com> wrote:

I think you got a little confused with a previous post of mine. Mac OS X is Not in this scenario at all!!! So completely Eradicate it from this current Scenario. This is a complete PHP/Apache on Windows 2003 Scenario. That's it! So what it is supposed to be is: * PHP5 / Apache2.2 on Windows Server 2003 * Folder on another Windows Machine on the Network contains some files (mapped as network drive "X:\") * PHP trying to read file on X:\ from Apache on Windows 2003.

Ok, I was under the impression this was one Win2003 machine in a Mac network. There's really nothing else to it. Heh.

Can you, from the Windows 2003 machine, manually access the folder/file that you're asking PHP (through Apache) to access? Unless the service that Apache is running under has permissions to communicate with the share resource (location X), this will always fail. Yes! Without any problems! I can easily navigate to the X: drive on that Windows Machine, and do anything I want with files there. I have all permissions.

Are you running Apache under a different (non-privileged) account on the Win2003 machine? If Apache is running as a service with a different username (with no extended access to network resources), you will need to get Apache to run as a service under a user that can access the network resource. And I still think you should use non-mapped addresses instead of mapped addresses, since a mapping is just a localized version of a resource name alias. If, after determing that Apache is running with the right permissions for the owned processes to connect to and use a network shared resource, then it's probably an Apache UID conflict (is PHP in safe mode?). -- Jared Farrish Intermediate Web Developer Denton, Tx Abraham Maslow: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." $$