in reply to mapping a network drive

You can assign a drive name yourself:

system 'net.exe use I: \\\\server_1212\\d$';

Or, use backticks to capture the command output.

@result = `net.exe use * \\\\server_1212\\d$`;

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Re: Re: mapping a network drive
by arthas (Hermit) on Jul 02, 2003 at 13:14 UTC

    The latter is probably a better choice, as it won't fail if a network path is alreadi assigned to the letter I.

    Michele.

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Re: Re: mapping a network drive
by blackadder (Hermit) on Jul 02, 2003 at 13:16 UTC
    Ahh, the back ticks instead of the system, oh brother.....damn. Thanks very much...god bless.
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Re: Re: mapping a network drive
by blackadder (Hermit) on Jul 02, 2003 at 13:20 UTC
    this is the reason why I was using net use *,...i wanted any available drive, the I drive could be mapped to somewhere else on another machine….Anyway, I thought there might be more elegant way to grab the dive letter assigned rather than having to write a pattern matching code. Thanks for the tip.
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