[Pdx-pm] Win32 network files

[Dennis McNulty]

What works for me for ActiveState Perl is to set up a Windows "share" on 
the target Win machine + folder combo, assign the share name with a 
drive letter on the local machine, then in the Perl script, refer to 
that drive letter - example: "P:\\folder\\file.ext" . You could do the 
assignment in Perl by making a system() call with command argument "NET 
USE <drv_ltr> \\\\machine\\share". I think MS DOS boxes can only access 
remote drives using this method.

- Dennis McNulty
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Kris Bosland wrote:

>	Yes, I did try that and it didn't work.
>I may try to put together a series of tests.  For now my workaround is to
>copy things to a disk local to my server.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Kris
>
>On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>
>
>>Kris Bosland wrote:
>>
>>>	Has anyone accessed network disks on Win32 in perl?
>>>
>>>
>>Are you using ActiveState Perl?  Seems to me I could use forward slashes
>>when calling from inside perl.  I've been lucky enough to avoid Windows
>>for the last few months and was able to map the resource to a drive
>>letter on the systems I had to work with/on.
>>
>>
>>>e.g.
>>>
>>>\\a\b\c
>>>
>>e.g.
>>	//a/b/c
>>
>>
>>
>>Rod
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