Oracle XE - UTL_FILE - shared printer

Question

Hi,
I am trying to recreate a production environment on XE.
I am trying to send a print command to a shared printer (share name label01).
The machine running the XE database is called cobrademo.
When I try the following command utl_file.fopen('\\cobrademo\label01', 'test.txt','w'), I get ora-29280 invalid directory path.
When I change the directory to a directory on the cobrademo machine it works fine.
The solution of mapping util_file to a shared printer is also working in production.
The XE service is running as a user called OracleDBA, that has also been granted access to the shared printer.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Answer 1

cleme1a wrote:
When I try the following command utl_file.fopen('\\cobrademo\label01', 'test.txt','w'), I get ora-29280 invalid directory path.2 basic issues. The Oracle server needs to be able to resolve that NetBIOS hostname to an IP address. Secondly, the current Windows user that is running the Oracle server process, needs to have access to that UNC (read and write in your case).
A simple method to test is to logon as that Windows user (usually <i>Oracle</i>) on the Oracle database server. Open a command console window. Type the following:
+{noformat}net view \\cobrademo{noformat}+
If this fails, then get the IP address of that cobrademo server and add the following like to c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\lmhosts :
<i><ipaddress> cobrademo </i>
If the net view command works, attempt to access (read, write or map) the NetBIOS share/service called label01. E.g.
+{noformat}echo "This is a test" > \\cobrademo\label0{noformat}+
This needs to work in an automated fashion - thus no keyboard/user input such as specifying a username and/or password to make the NetBIOS calls and access work.
PS. Note that this is not a question related to either the SQL or PL/SQL languages. Please choose an appropriate forum for your question's subject matter in future. Thanks.