PHP Access Network Path Under Windows

php access network path under windows

I solved it by changing some stuff in the registry of the server as explained in the last answer of this discussion:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25805

Thanks to VolkerK and Gumbo anyway!
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EDIT (taken from php.net):

The service has limited access to network resources, such as shares
and pipes, because it has no credentials and must connect using a null
session. The following registry key contains the NullSessionPipes and
NullSessionShares values, which are used to specify the pipes and
shares to which null sessions may connect:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
Alternatively, you could add the REG_DWORD value
RestrictNullSessAccess to the key and set it to 0 to allow all null
sessions to access all pipes and shares created on that machine.`

add RestrictNullSessAccess=0 to your registery.

accessing network drive with php open dir

\192.168.1.1 is invalid address for network share. Have you tried \\192.168.1.1?

And in both cases you should escape that \ and write the address as a proper string with quotation marks.

Also, \\192.168.1.1 alone is not "a valid folder", you have to specify one of the network shares under this IP address.

That being said, you should use opendir("\\\\192.168.1.1\\share").

How to list the directories in a network drive using PHP?

From what I see, you are making this very hard on yourself.

If you are using PHP, it has everything you need to list a directory, network or otherwise.

<?php
if($fh=opendir('\\\\path\\to\\files')) {
  while (false !== ($fi =readdir($fh))) {
    echo "$fi\n";
  }
}
?>

I pretty much copied this verbatim from the PHP docs for readdir [reference].

There are a several things that you need to know.

1. PHP does not have access to mapped drives as the drive letter. That is set per user and not made available in the OS environment. This you need to point directly to the network path.
2. PHP has a constant called DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, which on Windows returns the appropriate slash in a path name, but for your purposes, it seems unnecessary. What you need to be aware of is that normal directory slashes on Windows are interpreted as the escape characters, so if you type a directory path like you did, what gets interpreted is c:scriptspath.ps1;which is also why you get the Access Denied error. Best thing for your purposes would be to write it how I indicated in my code above with the extra slashes that will give you what you want.

How to access network drive folder using credentials in php?

This works for me:

<?php

$user = 'mickeymouse';
$password = 'helloworld';

exec('net use "\\\INVEST-OP-001\test\music" /user:"'.$user.'" "'.$password.'" /persistent:no');
$files = scandir('\\\INVEST-OP-001\test\music');
echo '<pre>';
print_r($files);

exec('net use "\\\INVEST-OP-001\test\music" /delete /yes');

How to access mapped network drives using PHP running in IIS

Not sure if it works fine with mapped drive,IIS and PHP. But it is recommended to use UNC path instead.

When you run whoami, your application exectued it as your login user. However, when you host web app in IIS. The app run under application pool identity and access file via anonymous user.

If your shared folder server and IIS server are in the same domain. Then you could try to set application pool identity to a domain account who has enough permission to access the folder. Then please go to anonymous authentication and edit it to use Application pool idenity.

If you your shared folder server and IIS server are two separate workstation. Then you may need to create a user with same username and password. Then Grant the user read/write permission to access the UNC path. Finally you only have to set both anonymous user and application pool identity to this user.

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