Mapped Network Drives

Question

I have mapped a network drive to a computer in my home network. Now I am trying to access it via PHP - I did this quick test:

echo opendir(\'Z:\\\\\');


        

Answer 1

simple, use: "\\\\server\\dir\\subfolder" as the path. make sure you can access the "server".

works for me.
$arquivo = "\\\\server\\dir\\subfolder\\file.txt"; echo is_file($arquivo); //print 1.

Answer 2

Open the Services MMC by going to Start -> Run (or by using the search box, if using Windows 7) and typing Services.msc and pressing enter. Find the Apache service. Having never used WAMP, I have no idea what it's been named. Hopefully it starts with the word "Apache" though, and thus shouldn't be too hard to find. Right-click on the service and select Properties. Switch to the Log On tab. Select the radio button next to "This account:" and enter in the credentials for the user account you want to run Apache under. If it's a network/domain account, use the "DOMAIN\user" syntax (or search for the account using the Browse button). Select OK and restart the Apache service. Verify that your changes worked by looking for the "httpd.exe" process in Task Manager and checking to see which user name the process is running under.

reference http://board.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10371870&page=2

Answer 3

The User Contributed Notes to opendir() have this:

I was trying to access network drives using this opendir function. I read so many posts saying that it was almost impossible to access a network drive and finally, I found the answer; there are 2 steps to be followed to access a network drive with PHP either on the same machine or another machine.

in this case, the user rights seemed indeed to be the problem, which can be different from your rights depending on what user PHP / the web server are running on.