RE: Checking file existence on windows server

[Mike Cunningham <mcunning@xxxxxxx>]

I considered this but when I have tried this in the past I have not found it to be reliable. I do not know if it is something on the i side or the Windows side but we have had problems making this connection to do the mount and when we were successful we would have the connection drop a lot or be very slow. We were looking at not using FTP to move files between our i and Windows servers and use QNTC instead but when back to using FTP because of the issues. Do you use QNTC and find it reliable?  

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 9:49 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Checking file existence on windows server

Hi, Mike:

You should be able to "mount" that Windows server under the QNTC file 
system (a kind of "reverse" NetServer SMB-CIFS client on the 400) and 
then you should be able to use any of the standard IFS APIs, such as 
"access()" to determine if a given file exists.

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 8/9/2010 9:26 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
> Can anyone give me an idea of the best, most reliable, way (if it is even possible) to check to see if a file exists on a Windows server from an iSeries RPG (or CL) application? I want to try and condition an action in an RPG application based on a picture files existing or not existing on the windows server. My only thought is to create an IFS directory and FTP all the files from the server directory to the IFS and then check to see if an IFS file exists using CHKIFSOBJ
>
> Thanks
>