SPUG: scanning directories

[Daniel Jacobs]

Do you possibly need to escape the '/' characters? i.e.

$portal{BASEDIR} = "\/\/machinename\/sharedirectory";   

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Menardo, Dax wrote:

> first of all its a Windows environment - booooo, i hear some say.....
> 
> How do I scan through an unmapped share directory name on a server on the
> network domain? or even open one.....
> 
> Lets say:
> 
> $portal{BASEDIR} = "//machinename/sharedirectory";
> opendir(ETC,$portal{BASEDIR}) || die "\nCannot opendir ".$portal{BASEDIR}."
> \n$!";
> 
> eventhough the share permission is set to be read/write/execute for
> everyone.... the interpreter chucks out an error "cannot open the directory
> <blah, blah>".....
> 
> Any Ideas....
> 
> 
> 
Daniel Jacobs | danielj at cheshirecat.net | Internet & Unix Consulting
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