As long as the user that Apache is running under has NTFS read permissions to the target folder, then you should have no problems. A quick and dirty force method that I use would be something like this:

$file = "x:\\path\\to\\the\\file.pdf";
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/force-download');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($file));
readfile($file);

Note the double backslashes! Cheers.

Armando

Gustav Wiberg wrote:
Hi Stut!

Exactly what does that mean? Do you have any references? Please send :-)

Best regards
/Gustav Wiberg
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From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] open/download file not under www-root

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I thought accessing files/directories above the www-root via the web was 
impossible???

Directly yes, but you can proxy it through a server-side script.

-Stut


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