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\ba tch.bat');

as a starting point.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Hughie

[Tim Roberts]

Re: dos batch file execution

"hughie" <hughie.carroll @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\ba tch.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, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

[hughie]

Re: dos batch file execution


Tim Roberts wrote:

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

echo system("\\serve r\share$\dir\ba tch.bat arg1");

or

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

both don't return anything.

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

[hughie]

Re: dos batch file execution


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!).