netBEUI win32 CGI and other stuff

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

<html> <body> Recently I wrote a generic log checking script that runs as a CGI on my linux box. I was showing my boss at work and he asked me if I could modify it to run on his machine, running NT 4, as at my workplace there are several flaky servers running servlets, ftp, http and other services, and having a centralised form for checking the logs of them all would be a huge time-saver.

So I made some minor changes, but figured I didn't have to do too many alterations, as I wasn't doing anything "weird" in the script. Yet it refuses to work on NT.

I wrote some simple test scripts, and I believe I have tracked down one of the problems. Is there a special module I need to use to access files through the netBEUI protocol? I did a couple of searches for one, but came up with nothing that really answered my question.

As it stands now, my script fails on this line:

open(FILE,'\\server\path\to\file');
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any ideas? or any favorite resources for CGI programming in win32?

any help would be appreciated

steve

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Re: netBEUI win32 CGI and other stuff by Anonymous Monk on May 26, 2000 at 11:45 UTC
Opps this should be readable this is a bit cleaner. open(FH, "//server/path/to/file") or die $!; print while(<FH>); close (FH); for a bit of an explanation: Perl sees the \ as a meta escape in " strings. so "\\server\path\to\file" becomes "serverpathtofile" there are the solutions: double slashes: "\\\\server\\path\\to\\file" unix path symantics: "//server/path/to/file" this works because perl understands both even on NT ' quoted string '\\server\path\to\file' this works because single quoted strings ignore meta chars. Hope this helped. -wyn	[reply]
Re: Re: netBEUI win32 CGI and other stuff by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 05, 2002 at 13:51 UTC
or using a single quoted here, which is the only type of quoting mechanism in perl where a backslash need not be escaped. (Thanks Tye) `my $loc=<<'EOSTR'; \\server\path\to\file EOSTR` [download] :-) Yves / DeMerphq -- When to use Prototypes? Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform	[reply] [d/l]
Re: netBEUI win32 CGI and other stuff by httptech (Chaplain) on May 26, 2000 at 08:21 UTC
The closest thing I see is Win32::NetResource, which has provisions for connecting to shares, but I don't see any implementation for actually using those shares. Stabbing in the dark here; If I had to do this, the first thing I would look to see is if there are Win32 API calls to connect a remote share to a local drive letter, use the Win32::API module to do this, then access the file as if it were on a local drive.	[reply]
RE: netBEUI win32 CGI and other stuff by t0mas (Priest) on May 26, 2000 at 10:20 UTC
Don't know if this is your problem, but to make it work I put double backslashes in the path. `open(FILE),'<\\\\server\\path\\to\\file') or die $!; while (<FILE>) { print; } close(FILE);` [download] And it works well for me. /brother t0mas	[reply] [d/l]
Re: netBEUI win32 CGI and other stuff by Anonymous Monk on May 26, 2000 at 11:42 UTC
this is a bit cleaner. open(FH, "//server/path/to/file") or die $!; print while(<FH>); close (FH); for a bit of an explanation: Perl sees the \ as a meta escape in " strings. so "\\server\path\to\file" becomes "serverpathtofile" there are the solutions: double slashes: "\\\\server\\path\\to\\file" unix path symantics: "//server/path/to/file" this works because perl understands both even on NT ' quoted string '\\server\path\to\file' this works because single quoted strings ignore meta chars. Hope this helped. -wyn	[reply]