Users home drives

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

O' holy ones,
Forgive my sins, I am a bit rusty and I am trying to get up to scratch....I have a list of user account names or IDs in a Windows environment, How can I obtain their individual assigned home drives as specified in their profiles. Which would be the best Win32 based library or command should I use?. Any Perls of wisdoms (and/or an example) are highly appreciated.
Yours clueless Blackadder

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Re: Users home drives by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 24, 2003 at 21:59 UTC
Win32:NetAdmin UserGet/SetAttributes. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller	[reply]
Re: Users home drives by Jenda (Abbot) on Jun 24, 2003 at 23:00 UTC
Win32::Lanman should give you all you need and more. Jenda Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Rick Osborne Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature	[reply]
Re: Users home drives by young_david (Friar) on Jun 24, 2003 at 22:04 UTC
Perl maintains environment variables in a special hash named `%ENV'. Try typing "`perldoc env`" to get more info. I'm not sure how it would be done for a list of account names from the server side, but you could access local environment variables on each workstation by using %ENV. `use strict; my $profile = $ENV{'USERPROFILE'}; print $profile, "\n"; # $profile contains the path to the user's profi +le # usually located in C:\Documents and Settings\u +ser` [download] I'm sure some of the more experienced Monks will be able to give more advice on this, but I hope this helps.	[reply] [d/l] [select]