cdlvj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a Win DFS path. (\\fff.cf.local\ftpapps\ftpprod) which maps to a Server share. How do I get the actual path using the Win32 class. dfs path = \\2k3-system\ftpdata$. I what to know the system name. ie dynamic dfs change to \\w12-system\ftpdata.

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Re: Win32 DFS properties
by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 16, 2015 at 17:06 UTC

    What have you tried and how did it fail?

    I can only suggest to structure your code the follwing way:

    my $path = '\\\\2k3-system\\ftpdata$';
print "Reading '$path'\n";
frobnitz( $path );

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