Re: PHP - Moving files between iSeries and other servers

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly

I don't know PHP but I do know QNTC and FTP - you don't use FTP through 
QNTC - the latter is a way to get to a Windows file share using Windows 
networking. It is not the fastest thing on 2 feet. You have to mount 
that share - then you just use normal file copy and move IFS commands.

(Having said that, yes, you CAN use ftp, but it's basically going to 
localhost then - to the file share defined in the IFS.)

I (we at my company) recommend using NFS instead - Network File System - 
if you Windows server can be set up for it - the server software is free 
from Microsoft, so it's a corporate decision. You can find information 
on it at our wiki site http://wiki.rjssoftware.com.wiki - search for nfs 
on that page - search box is on the left. There are some special steps 
to take when setting it all up - the information is there.

There will likely be some references to our products, but have no fear - 
it is not connected to our stuff intrinsically - we just find it works 
better than QNTC.

HTH
Vern

Kelly Cookson wrote:
> Good idea. You're probably on the right track with QNTC being the way to use the filesystem classes. 
>
> I found my remote server in the QNTC file system. I tried using "/QNTC/MYSERVER/MYDIR/filename.txt". But it still didn't work. 
>
> It's also kind of frustrating that I can get FTP to work from the debugger on my laptop, but the same scripts won't work in the Zend Core in i5.
>
> Thanks,
> Kelly
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:45 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] PHP - Moving files between iSeries and other servers
>
> Kelly Cookson skrev:
>   
> > How do I use FTP or the filesystem classes to move files back and forth
> > between the iSeries and remote servers\directories? 
> >
> >  
> >
> > When I try this code:
> >
> >
> >  $toFile = "\\\\MyServer\\MyDirectory\\php_filesystem_test.txt";
> >
> >   
> >     
> The snippet uses Windows-syntax -- \\myserver\mydirectory ... - to reach 
> remote servers which only works on Windows servers.
>
> You need to find the IFS-name which does the same.  A guess would be 
> through the /QNTC mount point.  It appears to be described here, but I 
> don't have any personal experience with it, 
> http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg031704-story04.html
>
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