Accessing a server side text file Objective-C

Question

I am trying to read a simple text file from a share drive on my internal network.

NSString *filePath = @"/Users/myName/Desktop/App_Data/text.txt"; 

    NSFileManager *filemgr;

    filemgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

    if ([filemgr fileExistsAtPath:filePath] == YES)
        NSLog (@"File exists");
    else
        NSLog (@"File not found");

I have a shortcut to the folder called App_Data on my desktop which is connected to the server but the actual file is on the server and cannot access the file through the shortcut folder. I am trying to do this for an iPad using Objective-C. Is there a better method to access the server?

Answer 1

Run an FTP server on the machine with the file(s) you want to access and create an FTP connection to that from the iPad.

Here is a "simple" FTP example from Apple, SimpleFTPSample, using both the NSURLConnection and CFFTPStream APIs.