Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

[glh]

Hopefully just missing something obvious. Simply want QM to be able to
'see' (read/write) a file on a windows shared mapped drive. I have
tried all sorts of permutations of what I thought the following should
be to no avail ...

VOC entry ...

0001 F
0002 shared name (ie ... z:\ or \\computer\sharedname , etc...

Thanks

[Martin Phillips]

Hi Gary,

> 0001 F
> 0002 shared name (ie ... z:\ or \\computer\sharedname , etc...

This should work fine but the NETFILES configuration parameter must be set
to enable remote access (See the QM Reference Manual). This is because there
are potential locking issues that QM cannot resolve.

Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200

[glh]

Hi Martin,

I had already set NETFILES to 1 (or does it need to be set to 2) with
the same results.
Anything else I should be looking at?

Thanks,

Gary

On 25 Nov, 11:00, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com>
wrote:

[Martin Phillips]

Hi Gary,

Try a simple program that attempts to open the file and print the values of
STATUS() and OS.ERROR() in the ELSE clause.

Martin

[CDMI - Steve T]

why set a 'mapped drive' ?

why not just:

 

READV MAPPED.DRIVE FROM PARAMETER.FILE,MAPPED-DRIVE,1 ELSE

 MAPPED.DRIVE = "\\CDMI-WEB\CDMIWEB_F\QMSYS"

END

**** something like that above... then

OPENPATH MAPPED.DRIVE TO FILE ELSE

 CRT \Could not open \:MAPPED.DRIVE:\ status \:STATUS():\ os.error \:OS.ERROR()

 INPUT DIO

 STOP

END

 

what do you benefit from a mapped drive?
 

Steve Trimble

Computerized Data Mgmt Inc
PO Box 13403
Maumelle, AR 72113
(501) 803-0974 09:00am - 6:00pm CST

 

Home of self defense products: http://www.protecturself.com

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From: Martin Phillips <martinp...@ladybridge.com>
To: ope...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, November 25, 2009 1:45:39 PM

Subject: Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)

Hi Gary,

Try a simple program that attempts to open the file and print the values of
STATUS() and OS.ERROR() in the ELSE clause.


Martin

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From: "glh" <ga...@unaweep.com>
To: "OpenQM" <ope...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Accessing file on shaerd mapped drive (windows)



Hi Martin,

I had already set NETFILES to 1 (or does it need to be set to 2) with
the same results.
Anything else I should be looking at?

Thanks,

Gary

23 11:54:36 PST 2009 -->

[Brian Speirs]

Another couple of things to try:

Open a DOS box from Windows and try to list the shared folder using a
DIR command.

If that doesn't work, you've got general networking issues.

Assuming that does work, try the same thing from the QM command
prompt:

! DIR path_to_sharedfolder

If that works, then you should be able to access the data from
QMBasic, although you'll still need to work on permissions to make
sure that you can update the data.

Cheers,

Brian

[glh]

Hi All,

Thanks for your response(s)

(1) Does appear when responding to a DOS dir cmd

(2) Does appear when responding to a !dir cmd in QM

(3) Responds with the 3007 error when attempting to open in basic
program in QM

(4) QM version 2.9.9. Have tried setting NETFILES=1 & NETFILES=2 W
with same result.


Thanks,

Gary

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[Brian Speirs]

OK. I've had this problem before ...

Look in the ERR.H item in the SYSCOM file. This gives the error
translations.

Error 3007 is 'No VOC record'.

So, looking back at your original post, you have defined a VOC entry -
but there is no dictionary component. So create a dictionary:

CREATE.FILE DICT JUNK

and then put a reference to that dictionary in your VOC item.

0001 F
0002 Path to data file
0003 JUNK.DIC

The file should now be accessible.

Cheers,

Brian