RE: [PHP] Copying file to a network drive (in WinNT4)

Let me know what you find, if anything. Seems I may be encountering a similar problem executing mysqldump from a php script as a scheduled command on nt4. I can execute the command writing to a local drive and a remote drive when I execute from the DOS command line, but when running as a scheduled (the AT command), the copy to the local drive works, but the remote mounted drive fails. Does this sound similar? Good Luck, Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Joe Kaiping [mailto:joe.kaiping@home.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:30 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: ville.mattila@pilotmedia.fi Subject: RE: [PHP] Copying file to a network drive (in WinNT4) > -----Original Message----- > From: Ville Mattila [mailto:ville.mattila@pilotmedia.fi] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:10 AM > To: joe.kaiping@home.com; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Copying file to a network drive (in WinNT4) > > > Also, make sure that you have permission to create/modify > the $dest file. > > Should be, because I can copy the file via "normal way" in Windows.... > > Hi again, Not sure what you're up against. I searched http://www.php.net to confirm h:\file is the correct Windows file system syntax to use. Seems to be. Also there is no mention of copy() not working on windows, (except for when using a sharename instead of a mapped drive name. (But you're using a mapped drive name, h)) The apache daemon on unix runs under the permissions of a certain system user, usually "nobody". Not sure how NT does it, but if it also runs under a specific user, maybe that user doesn't have permission to write to the file? However, the version of PHP I'm running gives a "Permissions" error message when it doesn't have permission to write to the file. You got the following error instead, but I'm not sure about the behavior of PHP on windows, maybe a different error message is output when you don't have permission. Warning: Unable to create 'h:\redhouse.jpg': Invalid argument in c:\apache\htdocs\copypic.php on line 14 Anyway, I was unable to reproduce the "Invalid argument" error on Unix. I would doubt that there in a bug with copy() for Windows without it already appearing on the PHP site. So I'd guess that it is caused because PHP doesn't like the format of the contents of either $src or $dest. I'd suggest going over those again with a magnifying glass. It sounds like you already have, though, so I'm out of thoughts for right now. Sorry for not being able to help any more. Best of luck! -Joe -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net