TurboNut wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a project where each computer in our office will
have different files
> in a folder on their local computer named C:\Scanned. We
would like to keep up
> with what is in each directory and put it in the
database on the remote server.
> We have it all working on a single local machine but on
the server we cannot
> access a folder on the connecting pc.
Thank goodness. Just imagine what could happen if any website
you
visited could just start snooping around the file system of
your local,
client PC. Scary stuff that.
> We also don't want to install coldfusion
> on every one of the machines just to access the local
directory for each of
> them.
>
> Is there a way to use cfdirectory to view a local
directory on the persons pc
> but not on the server?
>
*IF* all the client PC's are on a well defined local|wide
area network.
And you want to create a domain user that can read all the
file
systems on all these computers. Then ColdFusion can be
configured to
run under that user. It would then have access to the desire
directories.
You would use UNC paths in the <cfdirectory...> tag,
which means you
will have to know the machine names of all these PCs and it
would look
like:
<cfdirectory
directory="\\{machineName}\c$\Scanned\"...>
But this is really not the job for a Web Application Server.
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