[thelist] Can't Open UNC Paths from ASP or PHP

[Anthony Baratta]

At 09:20 PM 2/4/2003, Josh wrote:

>  I am using my schools webserver to access shares on other computers on
>the network.  The webserver is on the school network.  I can't get
>openDir in PHP or filesystemobject in ASP to access the shares.  It is a
>Red Hat linux box.

When you access a shared drive/directory via IIS, you are doing so as the
IIS user account (IUSR_blahblahblah). If the IIS user account does not have
rights to the share, then you won't be able to do much.
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