> > Your best bet would be to run a periodic sync to copy the files across >> from the other server but it would have to run outside the IIS process. >> There are plenty of solutions around for doing this and they have nothing to >> do with PHP. You can then refer to the local copy of the file from PHP and >> it will then work. > > This isn't very feasible because the server that contains the documents contains almost 1 terabyte worth of documents and continues to grow in size. No way I would want to mirror that amount of information just to hude the file path.
Instead of just making and executing a batch file, maybe there is a way for PHP to call a scheduled task? Since within a scheduled task you specify what username/password is used to execute it I may be able to get it to work?
