how to access a shared folder on a windows machine with iphone SDK?

Question

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help point me in the right direction if I am trying to write the contents of a file from a shared folder on a windows machine to an array on the iphone over a wifi connection.

could I do it with initWithContentsOfURL??

thanks for the help

Answer 1

initWithContentsOfUrl reads files produced by the writeToURL:atomically: method. These two methods require an HTTP server to work, so you would need to setup IIS or Apache on the windows box.

What you want is an iPhone samba client.

Samba is an open source implementation of networking protocols to share files and printers between Unix computers and Windows.

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