Re: read smb drive

Nathan Nobbe пишет:

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com>wrote:

On 5 November 2010 16:30, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote:

    
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Steve Staples <sstaples@mnsi.net>
      
wrote:
    
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 10:06 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
        
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Steve Staples <sstaples@mnsi.net>
          
wrote:
    
Hey guys (and gals)

I am writing something that needs to connect to a SMB server... can

this

be done easliy? I copied a sample code from php.net that used the system() command

and

mounted the SMB to a /mnt/tmp partion, and technically, it works....

the

problem is, is that mount has to be run as root... is there a way to put the "mount/unmount" commands into an allowed command? i supposed, the other problem is, is waht if this is on a windows machine? i dont really want to mess with permissions too much, since this

will

have to be portable from linux to windows... any help would be appreciated...

is there any reason the php application code has to be responsible for mounting the network drive? typically this is an os-level responsibility. -nathan

this is true, but i am looking at mounting it, reading the contents, maybe moving a file to it, or renaming a file... and then closing the smb share. i have thought abotu making it a requirement on the users end to have the directory ready for the application... but thought also about maybe giving them the option to connect to it and do what it has to do, then close it... i've been doing it the second way, but was wondering if the first was a viable option or not.

hmm, yeah im not sure if theres a clean mounting interface between

windows

and linux. the nomenclature is different for one, and im not even sure

how

to mount a network drive programmatically under windows. maybe someone

else

on the list does. -nathan

You don't need to "mount" the share. If the share is available, then you can access using UNC ... But you don't need to mount the share Is this not the same on unix?

im not sure, ive got some linux machines mounting windows shares and it seems ls is not happy using the smb url to the share. there may be a way though, for those willing to dig a little :D -nathan You can use 'smbclient' for copy file from the machine running the client (Linux) to the server (Windows). In PHP it is necessary to use functions like system or shell_exec.