Greetings again,

I've got some code that copies files from one Windows network share to another, ie from \\server1\share to \\server2\share. Before I do the copying, however, I want to verify that the server running the script can connect to this share; ie that it exists and I can read from it.

Here's what I've been using:

my $connect_shr = 'net use \\\\'.$server.'\\'.$share;
my $result_shr = `$connect_shr`;
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And then I can process $result_shr. The problem here is that if the script can't connect to the server\share pair, the net use command blocks until an error code is returned. This takes anywhere from seconds to minutes on my systems.

Is there a better way to do this?

Cheers,
ibanix

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