Well, mainly because PHP doesn't (I think) have a mount function. It would mean executing an external command. I always regard that as living a bit dangerously - it can be difficult to write robust code that will recover from a problem that way.
Adam Voigt wrote: > Why can't you just mount the share on-the-fly when they enter the > username and pass? > > > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 06:11, Howard Miller wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to be able to manipulate files that are on my samba file server >> from my PHP application. These shares are not normally mounted on my web >> server and it would be inconvenient and yet another administative >> maintenance task to do so. >> >> So... I want to be able to present a form to the user where they can type >> a URL (eg, //my.sambaserver/myshare/some/directory), a username and a >> password and for PHP to be able to manipulate the files therein. >> >> Maybe this is easy, but I can't see how to do it!! Any help appreciated. >> >> Thanks!! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
