Greets Monks...

I am trying to monitor a directory. I am running on Windows2000 with activestate 5.6. My standard "get_dir" routine is used for both these files. (wlog just puts a timestamp on the line and writes it to a log.)

sub get_dir {
        my $dir = shift ;
        opendir(DIR, $dir) || wlog( "Cannot open dir: $dir." );
        my @files = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir DIR ;
        closedir DIR;
        return @files ;
}
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The problem is that the machine I want this to run on constantly complains about not being able to read the directory... I can get the directory listing from my workstation. I have been running a script that writes out the file count and then having the other program read the file. Not optimal. Here are both code snips:

#! /usr/bin/perl
# This one works
sub main {
@total1 = get_dir("\\\\RICH0417\\d\$\\wirein");
@total2 = get_dir("\\\\RICH0418\\d\$\\wirein");
@total = (@total1, @total2);
open (F, ">E:\\wirecount.txt")|| die("Cannot open file.");
print F ($#total + 1);
close F;
print STDOUT ".";
sleep 30;
main();
}
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sub do_wire {
#Non-working....
my @wire1 = get_dir("\\\\RICH0417\\d\$\\wirein") || wlog("Cannot get w
+ire1.");
my @wire2 = get_dir("\\\\RICH0418\\d\$\\wirein") || wlog("Cannot get w
+ire2.");
my @wiretotal = (@wire1, @wire2);
my $wire = ($#wiretotal + 1);
my $wire = get_file("C:\\wirecount.txt");
    if ($wire < 100) {
        $wirestat = "green";
    } else {
        $wirestat = "red";
    }
    return $wire;
}
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Anybody have some things I can look into as far as getting this?? I have even tried:

system("net use /USER:USERNAME Q: \\\\RICH0417\\d$\\Temp PASSWORD") ==
+ 0 && wlog("Q:\ Mounted");
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to mount the drive. Note that I can mount the drive from the desktop via the usual windows methods.

Finally, from the log:

14:28 1-17-2003 >>      Cannot open dir: \\RICH0417\d$\wirein. 
14:28 1-17-2003 >>      Cannot get wire1. 
14:28 1-17-2003 >>      Cannot open dir: \\RICH0418\d$\wirein. 
14:28 1-17-2003 >>      Cannot get wire2.
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Thanks for your help...
~Hammy