As stated in my email it is extremely important in this case to use this
method /something/something. I have used your method before but it won't
work in this scenario. My specific question was how to tell perl where /
was and what drive it applied to, or to see if it was just the current drive
the perlscript was executing on at the time. The net use information is
beneficial although I don't like passwords being stored in text files. I
wonder if that is required since the program is already executing as the
user who would authenticate.
-Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Gibson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:54 AM
To: Flynn, Timothy J; Perl-Win32-Users@listserv. ActiveState. com
(E-mail)
Subject: Re: A couple questions with windows and perl
this is what I use for paths in perl for win32
c:\\folder\\folder\\filename.txt
I backtick the "\" with another "\"
Also, when you go to map a drive, I use the system function
and the "net use" command (I know there is probably a module
you can download in perl to do this.....)
Here is an example
system("net use x: \\\\pacer\\c my_nt_password
/user:MYDOMAIN\\briang");
If you were to run this from DOS you wouldn't
have to backtick everything like I did.
This system call maps your x: drive to the share \\pacer\c (the c drive
share on the server pacer).
Hope this helps, you can also run "net use /?" to see the options for net
use
----- Original Message -----
From: "Flynn, Timothy J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Perl-Win32-Users@listserv. ActiveState. com (E-mail)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: A couple questions with windows and perl
> Hi,
>
> First Question: I have a program that relies on this type of UNIX
> compatible path convention, i.e.. /somedir/someplace/somefile, instead of
> 'C:\somedir\someplace\somefile'. This seems to work okay when I only have
> one drive, say drive c, but what changes say when I have a drive S: that I
> want to use as /? I have tried chdir('s:\') but that doesn't seem to
> totally do it. Is there a way to set / to whatever drive root you want it
> to be and then have the script work normally from then on?
>
> Second Question: When you run a perlscript on a windows system but
> no one is logged in, say with the scheduler, do you have to create drive
> mappings in the script or does windows use the drive mappings for the
> account the script is running under? If I need to create the mapping can
> you please provide a brief example of how this is accomplished?
>
> My config is windows 2000 server +
> ActivePerl-5.6.0.623-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.msi.
>
> TIA!
> -Tim
>
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