How to give network path while creating oracle directory.

Question

I have created
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY TESTDIR AS '\\168.176.33.117\TESTDIR';
but through this path i m not able to create text file.
create or replace procedure WriteTest is
f utl_file.file_type;
s varchar2(200) := 'this is some info';
begin
f := utl_file.fopen('TEST2DIR','sample2.txt','W');
utl_file.put_line(f,s);
utl_file.fclose(f);
end WriteTest;
Help how to give network path while creating oracle directory.
--when i give local machine path then it will create at local machine where oracle is installed. but not able to create at other machine.
Zakir

Answer 1

Well for starters your directory object is called TESTDIR and in your fopen statement you are referring to TEST2DIR.
On top of that I'm not sure oracle is happy to refer to network locations. I think you have to map it to a regular drive mapping (shared directory) type path. Can't say I've every tried to do it though.