title: Accessing a Windows Share using PHP
body: <p>I need to access an Excel file on a Windows Share using PHP but seem to be running into what looks like an authentication issue.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/" rel="noreferrer">PHP-ExcelReader</a> to open and read the file. Works fine on my local machine but the server I'm putting it on doesn't have the rights to access this share, and so its telling me that the path is unreadable!</p>
  
  <p>I'm not even sure the path I have for accessing this share is correct:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $file_to_include = "\\\\10.9.8.7\depts$\ExcelFile.xls";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it works on my machine, as I said so I'm happy with that.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can add my credentials in here somewhere?</p>