Finding the name of a server so that it can be accessed via PHP

Question

What I am trying to do is read and write from a shared folder on a network. The .php is something like fopen(\\\\server\\share\\file.txt, "r"), but my problem is I dont know what name to supply for the server name.

Can I use the IP address as the server name?

Or is the server name what I have circled in red?

Answer 1

You can use the ip. Whatever format works with windows explorer (given that you add any needed extra backslashes that are used for escaping) should work with php, too.

Answer 2

On windows that would be:

fopen("\\\\server\\share\\file.txt", "r");

(you must use quotes)