Darin beat me to it. The default install of CF is as LocalSystem. You should change it to a domain account, and make sure that account has access rights to the directory on the other server you want to get files from.
There is an article that tells you about changing from using LocalSystem to a domain account and what you will need to do: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/cf7_security.html Production CF servers should be setup that way anyway, because running as LocalSystem gives CF way more rights than it deserves. As far as using UNC paths to get at files from CF, I'd recommend you look at the Adobe CF Forums. This question has been asked and answered probably hundreds of times. Kind of like "Why does my CF server prompt me to download a file instead of rendering it?". That has to be probable THE most asked question in the history of CF, and the CF forum has many instances of it being answered for every product version. ----- Original Message ---- From: Darin Kohles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:40:48 PM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] How Load Files from Outside the Web Directory - Corrected On Windows you can access Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services then find all the ColdFusion goodness - You might be able to change the login user here - I know I've seen it done ping; Eric Jones. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Shawn, in my limited experience, it's striking how often security problems > turn out to present themselves as so other type of error. Could this be an > attempt on the part of the security system designers to add an extra level > of security by confusing people as to the nature of the problem? And where > do I look to find out whether CF is running as LocalSystem. Pardon my > ignorance of networks. > > Ajax, in my ignorance, I assume the by 1.1.1.1 you don't mean that > literally, but rather you mean whatever octal address is. Is that right? And > how do I determine that? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ajas Mohammed > Sent: Apr 24, 2008 4:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] How Load Files from Outside the Web Directory - > Corrected > > > We use shared folders and we refer these shared folders like this <cfcontent > file = "\\1.1.1.1\someSharedFolder\Documents1.pdf"> where 1.1.1.1 is an ip > addr and folder structure in windows is like this > > X:/Shared/someSharedFolder/Documents1.pdf > > and someSharedFolder is a shared folder. We have D,E,F,X so many shared > drives on this machine. > > Notice that in the code, I have not referenced Shared. > > > Ajas. > > > On 4/24/08, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Reading through what I wrote, there were a few other errors, so I send > this version to clear up possible confusion. Sorry.) > > > > My web site needs to load PDFs which are located in a different directory > (in fact, on a different disk drive) than the one on which the site's web > pages reside. In developing this website by working as localhost on my own > desktop PC at home, the following code works flawlessly: > > > > <cfcontent file = 'D:/Styles/553/55303.pdf'> > > > > The web page containing the above line of code, and everything else in the > site, is on a subdirectory of C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/. And in real life the > parameter 'D:/Styles/553/55303.pdf' is a #variable# which can evaluate to > that path among others; I'm hard-coding it here to simplify the example. > > > > My problem is that this must work on a network where the target is in a > virtual directory on a different box. Since that virtual directory presents > itself to us humans as drive J, the value of the file attribute in the above > <cfcontent> tag presumably becomes 'J:/553/55303.pdf'. But when I plug > 'J:/553/55303.pdf' into the above tag, both Firefox(FF) and Internet > Explorer(IE) complain that the file does not exist. > > > > A different approach is suggested by the fact that Windows Explorer (a.k.a > 'My Computer') shows the 'real(?), or underlying(?) location corresponding > to virtual drive J to be "Styles on 'dsm=svr1-acr'". The Help desk at > Leapfrog (the company which built my client's network) suggested that I use > '//dsm-svr1-acr/553/55303.pdf' instead of 'J:/553/55303.pdf'. But when I try > that, FF says it 'can't establish a connection to the server at > dsm-svr1-acr'; and IE says 'Page cannot be displayed'. > > > > The third method I tried was to use <cflocation> istead of <cfcontent>, as > below: > > > > <cflocation url="J:/553/55303.pdf">. > > > > I would assume <cflocation> should be equivalent to the <cfcontent> tag in > this situation since, based on the Livedocs, the difference between the two > seems to be only that <cfcontent> provides extra capabilities such as > specifying the MIME type, loading from a variable instead of a file, and > deleting the file after its contents are loaded to the page; and none of > those capabilities are needed here. Is there any a priori reason why I > should prefer one of these tags to the other here? > > > > In any case, when I try the code with <cflocation> as above, sometimes the > PDF is loaded exactly as desired, and sometimes it is not. So far I have so > far not been able to figure out what determines success or failure. When it > does NOT work, FF sometimes interprets the letter J as a protocol, and > reports that it 'doesn't know how to open this address because the protocol > (J) isn't associated with any program'. At other times it simply loads a > blank page with no error message (based on my notes, this seems to depend on > whether the value of the url attribute was substituted vs. hard-coded but > I'm not sure of this). As to IE, when the <cflocation> method does not work, > I get a javascript message saying 'Error: Member not found' (I neglected to > mention that the page containing the <cfcontent> or <cflocation> tag is > actually loaded to a child window via the javascript code: > > > > win=window.open(showpdf,'Style','width=800,height=500,resizable=yes') > > > > where showpdf evaluates to the url of the page containing the <cfcontent> > or <cflocation> tag, with the path to the file as part of its query string. > > > > Can anyone shed light on what's happening here, and what I should be doing > to make this work? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > <Ajas Mohammed /> > http://ajashadi.blogspot.com > No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do. > You can't improve what you don't measure. > Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, > sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents > the wise choice of many alternatives. > "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. 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