Accessing a Windows Share using PHP

php authentication windows-share
Ciaran picture Ciaran · Sep 18, 2009 · Viewed 25.3k times · Source

I need to access an Excel file on a Windows Share using PHP but seem to be running into what looks like an authentication issue.

I'm using PHP-ExcelReader to open and read the file. Works fine on my local machine but the server I'm putting it on doesn't have the rights to access this share, and so its telling me that the path is unreadable!

I'm not even sure the path I have for accessing this share is correct:

    $file_to_include = "\\\\10.9.8.7\depts$\ExcelFile.xls";

But it works on my machine, as I said so I'm happy with that.

Is there any way I can add my credentials in here somewhere?

Answer

Cem Kalyoncu picture Cem Kalyoncu · Sep 18, 2009

Path \\10.9.8.7\depts$\ExcelFile.xls must be locally accessible to the client, since PHP has no SMB support.

EDIT: At least not natively, try smb4php

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