Re: utl_file on mapped drive?

Steve Haynes wrote in message ...
>Hi All,
>RE: 8.0.5.1.1 on NT4 sp3.
>
>UTL_FILE.FOPEN fails with an INVALID_OPERATION exception
>on the server when using a drive mapping, even if that
>drive mapping has been specified as a utl_file_dir in
>the init.ora.
>
>Is this a bug?
>
>Some further details:
>The server has a dir C:\X\Y
>and a mapping of T: pointing to C:\X
>I can Dir T:\Y OK.
>I have utl_file_dir=T:\Y
>Utl_file works on C:\X\Y but not on T:\Y
>
>any thoughts?
>Steve
>p.s
>This might sound odd, but I need a common view of a mapped
>drive between client and server so that get_file_name() builtin
>from forms5 can invoke a loadit() procedure for a chosen file.
>--
>Please remove nospam from my address to Reply.

AFAIK you cannot use mapped drives, I've got no idea why, possibly something with security (who has got the mapped drive on an NT box, the user or the system user).

Finn Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 00:16:10 CEST