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

Is there a way to get a list of available workgroup names on a network using perl?

Jonathan

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Re: Accessing workgroup names using perl
by vladb (Vicar) on Jun 19, 2002 at 18:05 UTC
    I'm not a huge expert on Windows NT, but couldn't you run the 'net' command from inside a perl script and simply process the output to get the desired result? Find some detailed info on the 'net' command: here. 

    my @net_info = `net config`;

# @net_info should contain lines of output
# produced by the 'net config' command.
# I hope they should contain work group info?

while (@net_info) {
  # parse the line here...

  print "$_\n";
}

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      Perhaps that works on NT4 only?? For Win2K try: 
          my @net_info = `net view`;
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      You'll only get a list of workgroups (or domains) if you use 'net view /DOMAIN'. This works on Windows 2000.
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