How do you retrive drives and net work connections?

[ImOk]

I want to retrieve a list of all the drives (HD, CD-ROM, Removable,
etc) and also network connections/mappings and shares connected to the
computer which is Windows XP.

I am trying to avoid using FileSystemObjec t if possible. Is there
anyway of doing this with PHP extensions?

My other thought would be to use exec() or a Java applet.

Any one of code that does this already or have any ideas how it could
be done?

Thanks.

[milahu]

Re: How do you retrive drives and net work connections?

Do you want the client's or the server's drives? To get the latter one,
you could use PHP's exec, otherwise you need a Java Applet.

[ImOk]

Re: How do you retrive drives and net work connections?


milahu wrote:[color=blue]
> Do you want the client's or the server's drives? To get the latter one,
> you could use PHP's exec, otherwise you need a Java Applet.[/color]

Only the client's. What would the command be to use exec() to get list
of drives?

[Tim Roberts]

Re: How do you retrive drives and net work connections?

"ImOk" <j_macaroni@yah oo.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
>milahu wrote:[color=green]
>> Do you want the client's or the server's drives? To get the latter one,
>> you could use PHP's exec, otherwise you need a Java Applet.[/color]
>
>Only the client's. What would the command be to use exec() to get list
>of drives?[/color]

You can't do it. All of your PHP code, including the exec() function, runs
on the SERVER.

To enumerate the disk drives on a client computer, you have to send a
program to the client. That means using a Java or ActiveX applet. The
user will have to specifically override the security settings to allow that
to happen.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

[ImOk]

Re: How do you retrive drives and net work connections?

Sorry I confused this. You are right it would be the SERVER i.e. the
computer PHP is actiually executing on. I would like to have PHP return
back to me the list of drives and shares to my browser.

Tim Roberts wrote:[color=blue]
> "ImOk" <j_macaroni@yah oo.com> wrote:[color=green]
> >
> >milahu wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> Do you want the client's or the server's drives? To get the latter one,
> >> you could use PHP's exec, otherwise you need a Java Applet.[/color]
> >
> >Only the client's. What would the command be to use exec() to get list
> >of drives?[/color]
>
> You can't do it. All of your PHP code, including the exec() function, runs
> on the SERVER.
>
> To enumerate the disk drives on a client computer, you have to send a
> program to the client. That means using a Java or ActiveX applet. The
> user will have to specifically override the security settings to allow that
> to happen.
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.[/color]