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Asked: 2026-06-12T09:39:59+00:00

Relative: Mapped Network Drives Service not able to access a mapped drive PHP is_dir

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Mapped Network Drives

Service not able to access a mapped drive

PHP is_dir and mkdir not working on mapped network drive

I know this is very old-school, but I just can’t figure it out…

On a Windows 2003 with wamp (apache 2.2, PHP 5.3.10) run as a service. Following the above link, I’ve already made it run as Administrator instead of SYSTEM. But still no luck.

I made a .bat file to make it clear:

@echo off
whoami
net use
php -r "var_dump(scandir('Z:\\'));"
php -r "var_dump(scandir('\\\\192.168.211.86\\voice'));"
php -r "var_dump(scandir('//192.168.211.86/voice'));"

And if I run it in cmd, the result is:

serv2003\administrator
New connections will be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK           R:        \\192.168.211.86\voice    Microsoft Windows Network
OK           Z:        \\192.168.211.86\voice    Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.

array(5) {
  [0]=>
  string(1) "."
  [1]=>
  string(2) ".."
  [2]=>
  string(6) "Folder"
}
array(5) {
  [0]=>
  string(1) "."
  [1]=>
  string(2) ".."
  [2]=>
  string(6) "Folder"
}
array(5) {
  [0]=>
  string(1) "."
  [1]=>
  string(2) ".."
  [2]=>
  string(6) "Folder"
}

But if I run it in Apache:

<body><pre>
<?php
echo `C:\path\to\test.bat`;
?>
</pre></body>

it outputs:

serv2003\administrator
New connections will be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unavailable  Z:        \\192.168.211.86\voice    Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.


Warning: scandir(Z:\): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in Command line code on line 1

Warning: scandir(): (errno 2): No such file or directory in Command line code on line 1
bool(false)

Warning: scandir(\\192.168.211.86\voice): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in Command line code on line 1

Warning: scandir(): (errno 2): No such file or directory in Command line code on line 1
bool(false)

Warning: scandir(//192.168.211.86/voice): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in Command line code on line 1

Warning: scandir(): (errno 2): No such file or directory in Command line code on line 1
bool(false)

Notice that yes there’s a R: driving missing in Apache module, but since I’m accessing Z:, I assume that’s not the problem.

I don’t have access to the remote folder, and I can’t copy all files to local system. All I need is the ability to read them in PHP. What can I do?

Thanks in advance!

Edit 1:

Not sure if this matters, but I’m accessing this server via Remote Desktop (it’s geographically far from me).

And the \\192.168.211.86\voice uses username/password to map.

All the above practice is run in the same login session.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try to install Apache, PHP and MySQL manually. Once I had really headache with WAMP when I try to run a code using Curl (in PHP CLI mode) and it took days to investigate what was the problem, since that day I never install pre-bundle packages even to any testing environment.

    This link will guide you: http://docs.joomla.org/Setting_up_Apache,_PHP_and_MySQL_manually

    Check the server firewall also.

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