PHP & creating/writing files across a network

Lemming

Hey Guys,

I have a logging script here, and I'm trying to get it to write to a windows 2k box across the network, but am having difficulties. It [the script] doesn't seem to be getting beyond the linux box

function updateLog($filename, $code)
{
        $fileUpdate = 'blah' ;

        if(file_exists($filename))
        {
                if(!($fPtr = fopen($filename, "a+")))
                        echo "I/O Error! Unable to open file\n" ;

                if(($res = fwrite($fPtr, $fileUpdate)) == -1)
                        echo "I/O Error! Write failed\n" ;

                if(!fclose($fPtr))
                        echo "Error! File not closed.\n" ;
        }
        else
        {
                if($fPtr = fopen($filename, "w"))
                {
                        if(($res = (fwrite($fPtr, $fileUpdate))) == -1)
                                echo "I/O Error! Write failed\n" ;

                        if(!fclose($fPtr))
                                echo "Error! File not closed.\n" ;
                }
                else
                        echo "I/O Error! Unable to create file\n" ;
        }
}

$gmsCode = 'xxxxx' ;
updateLog("10.1.0.xxx:G:\\dir1\\dir 2\\dir3\\users.log", $gmsCode) ;

Any ideas?

Zaltais

Don't know about PHP, but I know with perl you can do this using the Filesys::SmbClient or Filesys::SmbClientParser which uses a part of the samba toolset - smbclient - which is an FTP like interface to Windows machines on your network with open shares, enabling you to read and write files.

Have a google for a PHP equivalent....

Cheers,

Zaltais

Cr8or

ask in the php board ....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=65318

dahamsta

PHP shouldn't need samba-specific code for this, if you can write to the Windows box from the shell you should be able to write from PHP. However, I've never written to Windows from Linux. Lemming, the network request looks wrong to me - shouldn't you be trying to write to a mount? Also, does the webserver user have permission to do this?

adam