can't copy files

[raphael75]

I'm using a PHP script from the command line to copy files from a mapped drive on a remote computer to a folder on the local computer where PHP is running. I get an "Access is denied (code: 5)" error.

When PHP runs from the command line, is it using the same user account it runs with when it runs in the browser?

How can I tell if the access is denied on the remote side or the local side?

What account would need to have read/write permissions set?

Thank you!

[requinix]

PHP will be run as whatever user started it. If you ran it yourself, manually from the command line, then it will run as your user. When run by a web server (eg, when accessed through a browser) then it will run as whatever user the web server is running as: Apache is probably running as LOCAL_SYSTEM (which does not have networking privileges, so I suspect this is your problem) while IIS will run as a specific user account dedicated it (like "IUSR" or "IUSR_machine").

 

The best solution that I know for Apache on Windows is to create a brand-new user account just for it - so much like how IIS runs. The account will have networking privileges by default and your script should be fine. From there you can even manage file and directory permissions.