On 5/24/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari <sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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." $$
