Opening files on a server

[brood]

I have an html page which uses vbscript to open a file from a server and display it (after being manipulated) in a frame. The problem is that the users specify which file they wish to view by entering the date of the file they're after (each file is named date.txt) but the script can't find the file. I use the same code when the file is local and it works fine but as soon as I put it on a server it no longer works. The file does exist on the server because if I put the entire address into a window (eg.

http://some.domain.com/01012001.txt)it

appears. Is there a command/option that has to be used when dealing with servers?

 

[Mighty]

Is there a permissions issue here? Mise Le Meas,

Mighty

 

[RobV]

Do you have some example code? Yours,

Rob.

 

[Aladdin420]

If the file is on a server, then you'd need to use the mapping command in VBScript, and provide a username and a password in this command. If u have some code, that may make things clearer

 

[brood]

Here's part of the code and permissions is not an issue.

SET FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot
Set WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell&quot

SUB LOAD_FILE()
dim TempFileName
TempFileName = Inputbox("Enter Date of Filename (eg. 01/01/2001)","File Name", date)
FileName = MID(TempFileName,1,2) & MID(TempFileName,4,2) & MID(TempFileName,7,4)
MyPath = "

http://172.163.256.186/Files/"

FileString = MyPath & FileName & ".txt"

SET ReadFile = FSO.OpenTextFile("

http://172.163.256.186/Files/"

& FileName & ".txt", 1, false)

Program then calls another routine to manuipulate the read text.

As a secondary problem, I receive errors if I do a statement like SET FSO = Wscript.CreateObject(...) saying "object required: 'wscript'. All the sample code I've seen has the wscript part included but if I include I get errors. Again, that's just a secondary issue.

 

[Swany]

try:
set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot

 

[pr3]

i have a question.
what if you wanted to acheive this, but the opposite way?
like you have a server and you want to send the client
to a file?

thanks