Having read all the OLE stuff I can find and absorbed as much.
I can now create an FTP engine and establish a session and set properties for host
username and password. I cannot however call methods to ConnectToHost() or
UserLogin().
Does no one have any experience of this?
rgds
Dex
Dexter Casey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone successfully managed to control these two application via
> Perl using win32::OLE?
> I have some examples of basic scripts that control these but I want to
> do it from Perl and so far cannot create an instance of it
>
> This is a snipet that should start FTP.exe
>
> use Win32::OLE;
> $Machine = "\\\\ha031515";
> $classID= "HclFtp.Engine";
> $Class = [$Machine, $classID];
> $HostEx = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject( $Class );
> if( ! $HostEx )
> {
> $HostEx = new Win32::OLE( $Class, ) || die "Could not create an OLE
> '$Class' object";
> }
> $Sessions = "FtpEngine.Sessions";
>
> but I get this.
>
> Name "main::Sessions" used only once: possible typo at hummingbird.pl
> line 10.
> Win32::OLE(0.1501) error 0x800401f3: "Invalid class string" at
> hummingbird.pl line 5
> eval {...} called at hummingbird.pl line 5
>
> Help!
>
> --
> Dexter Casey
> FA&O IT Support
>
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