open+read+write to file in public folders

I have to access a file located in the public folders.
How can i do this in the easieest way? The path is always the same (it is in an outlook form). First i have to read from it, then i have to write to it. Can i eventually also use read only rights while editing it, so that when others try to write to it, when another one is writing to it, that that won't work?

Thanx 4 helping me.



[Edited by mgeerkens on 12-08-2000 at 02:24 AM]

what type of file is it, and are you trying to this in ASP ?

Ian

I am not trying this in ASP, just in VBscript from the form.
It is a small txt-file with 2 numbers in it one is a counter which has to be increased.

Thanx again

all you need is the following code
<script language="VBSCRIPT">
Sub OpenTextFileTest
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Dim fso, f
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
f.Write "Hello world!"
f.Close
End Sub
</SCRIPT>

the above code will open a file on the clients machine

if you want to open a file on the server use the following

<script language="VBSCRIPT" RUNAT="SERVER">
Sub OpenTextFileTest
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Dim fso, f
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
f.Write "Hello world!"
f.Close
End Sub
</SCRIPT>

if that doesn't work, then i think you need to do it in asp

hope this helps

Ian

Could you tell me someting more about
ASP?
And i know how to do that on a local machine, but if i have to open the file from the public folders, so there is no c:\dirname in it....

Thanx again!!

ASP - or active server pages is a way of dynamically creating pages on the fly and all the code that writes it is normally in vbscript. all the pages are created on the server and the client see's the end result. where you say the files are in public folders, do you meen their on virtual directories on the web server or on public folders on a network domain

it is a public folder on the Server. It is not a web server, so i think it is the one on the network domain.
If you are browsing in the public folders and you ask the properties of the folder where the file is in you can see the location like : \firstsubdir\secondsubdir\knowledgebase

Thanx again

in that case give this a go

<script language="VBSCRIPT" RUNAT="SERVER">
Sub OpenTextFileTest
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Dim fso, f
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("\\servername\firstsubdir\secondsubdir\knowledgebase\filename", ForWriting, True)
f.Write "Hello world!"
f.Close
End Sub
</SCRIPT>

as you can use relative path's in the opentextfile function

if that doesn't work then you will need to go down the asp route, but if you don't know anything about asp, I can;t really explain how to do it