Accessing Unix Files

[penney]

Is it possible without using FTP to open and read files that reside on a Unix server through VB or VBA running under a Windows 2000 PC? If so can you tell me what I need to know (what information I need and the steps I need to perform) in order to accomplish this - Is it performed through ADO using a connection string?

Thank you very much...

 

[strongm]

No

or, more accuratley, yes - depending...

Windows cannot talk directly to the Unix file system (apart from standard protocols like FTP, telnet, HTTP - which fundamentally don't actually care about the underlying OS)

That being said, there are products (Open Source, freeware, shareware and commercial) which can make Unix mounts look like NT/Lan Manager shares. Samba is probably the best known. However, I have no intention or time to explain how to get Samba up and running on any given Unix system.

 

[johnwm]

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