[mapserver-users] How can I get my shapefiles on LAN, without databases?

[Jeff McKenna]

Mauricio Herrera wrote:
> Hi mapserver users
> 
> I hope you can help with my questions. please
> 
> I have a LAN with two computers.  One computer is installed MapServer 
> and  my second computer are my shapefiles
> 
> How can I get  my  shapefiles from my second computer?
> I have tried to do this (example) , but I couldn´t  get my shapefile... 
> *Is it possible to do this?.. *Note: I dont wanna use database, only  files

That's a good question.  I gave this a shot, and this worked for me with 
shp2img (MapServer on Vista machine, data on XP machine):

MAP
   ...
   SHAPEPATH "\\MACHINENAME\sharename\pathtodatafolder"
   ...
   LAYER
     ...
     DATA "filename"
     ...
   END
END


-jeff



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