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Lazarus - open a text file on another machine

I am doing a simple program on Lazarus to read a text file on my Ubuntu server (via LAN).

I cannot get passed this line:

AssignFile(TheFile,'//My-server-IP/home/myusername/folder/abc.txt');

I get an error saying Access denied. I've set the file's permission to 777 but no success.

I even tried using the path: //My-server-IP/var/www/folder/abc.txt but have the same result.

The client machine is Windows XP. But can be even Windows 7 or anything.

Any thoughts on getting around this issue are really valued.

Solution

  • //server/share/file is not a windows notation of UNC paths. Maybe you mean \server\share\file ?

    I'm not sure if the FPC filename handling supports UNC. It is mostly based on Win32 -A functions, but tries to done some extra sanitizing of filenames.

    Note that access outside the windows explorer will probably not autologin for you.