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Mar 14.2006

Hi, I was wondering if its possible to fetch files from remote computers on the network in PHP.

There are some excel files I need to analyze using COM (got this part working ok using local files) but I need a way to fetch the files off the remote machine, then I guess store them locally (they will be hosted in IIS in the remote machine), so I can get to them using a URL [url]http://networkComp/docs/mydoc.something[/url] for example.

So i was just wondering does anyone have any tutorials for kind of thing? I googled round to no success ?

Thanks

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@bokehMar 14.2006 — If both machines are running windows and are on the same LAN you can use a windows network path to work on the files.
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@idnauthorMar 21.2006 — We both are running windows and are on the same LAN, but I cant seem to access the log, I get the error

failed to open stream: No such file or directory

I have mapped the server to drive X: and the location is correct, I just copy and paste the address in PHP into explorer locaiton bar (removing the extra ) and it opens the file

Is this a security thing because I am trying to access the logs from a remote machine?
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@bokehMar 21.2006 — Is this a security thing because I am trying to access the logs from a remote machine?[/QUOTE]I don't know. I have never run IIS so I don't know about security on that platform. On windows XP it would work but I have never seen a remote path with a drive letter. Normally they look like this:[CODE]\myServerwww[/CODE]That is a real path on my LAN.
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