Read File From A Different Server

Hello Friends,
We have a file (.txt) sitting in a server (not the application server) and there is a requirement to read data from this file into R/3. Manually, one needs a username and password to access this file as the server in which it resides is connected to a network. Now, what are my options? How can I do this? Please let me know!
Thanks,
Sam

If the server has FTP capability, you could connect via FTP to get the file and place it on the application server.  Another option is to have the folder in which the file resides NFS mounted to your app server, the the file is visible to your ABAP program and can be processed using OPEN/READ/CLOSE DATASET.

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