$dir = "\\Infoserver\firstdirectory\seconddirectory\mydirectory"; $dir = "//Infoserver/firstdirectory/seconddirectory/mydirectory"; $dir = "////Infoserver/firstdirectory/seconddirectory/mydirectory"; #### #perl on nt $dir = "\\\Infoserver\firstdirectory\seconddirectory\mydirectory"; opendir(DIR, $dir) || die "Can not open: $!\n"; while(defined ($file = readdir DIR)) { print "$file\n" } closedir(DIR);