dos batch file execution

[hughie]

Has anyone done this? A windows webserver has a share on the same
computer that contains some dos batch files. I'm trying to write a
php page that will execute them. After much thrashing around and
searching I'm still not getting any results.

I've tried
echo exec('t:\dir\batch.bat');

as a starting point.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Hughie

[Tim Roberts]

"hughie" <hu************@gmail.comwrote:

>Has anyone done this? A windows webserver has a share on the same
computer that contains some dos batch files. I'm trying to write a
php page that will execute them. After much thrashing around and
searching I'm still not getting any results.

I've tried
echo exec('t:\dir\batch.bat');

as a starting point.

The problem is probably the "t:", not the batch file. The webserver runs
as a service, under a separate user name, that does not have access to your
net shares.

Try writing it as a UNC: \\server\share\dir\batch.bat.
--
Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

[hughie]

Tim Roberts wrote:

Try writing it as a UNC: \\server\share\dir\batch.bat.

echo system("\\server\share$\dir\batch.bat arg1");

or

echo exec("\\server\share$\dir\batch.bat arg1");

both don't return anything.

now playing with adding "cmd /c " before my string.

[hughie]

I now believe this is a permission issue. php running on windows under
an IUSR account probably without permissions to access cmd.exe (which
is good!).