Thanks for the reply, a few things to address here.

I wasn't my, nor my colleagues, first concern whether or not the code is short. Or effective. While I appreciate the advice for further projects it's not quite my focal point at the moment.

The thing that is bothering me, is that since the Script is supposed to work on machines that dont quite belong to me (we are managing Servers for multiple customers) it is supposed to work "out of the box" meaning, it's supposed to work with the modules that our monitoring software delivers together with it's perl distribution which means, that it should, in general, work without further modules.

Another restriction would be, that the colleague/person I got the task from, doesnt want the path to be mounted via a "lettered" drive. Which means they dont want something like "net use" or "pushd". Since it is not quite in my place to challenge that, it is more or less a restriction I have to live with.

Also thanks for addressing the misslabeling of the Password assignment. I assign the option twice, because it sometime is optional and sometimes is not. Since the script, at least in the future, is also supposed to handle local filesystems and other types of shares (I think locally mounted shares wouldn't be that complicated, especially if they dont require authentication, since they would work just like local files), I basically said, that if the user is saying that I am supposed to handle an SMB share, it forces a password/username to be given, if I dont enter that conditional though, meaning, if the Filesystem given doesnt require authentication, then Password and username can be assigned but no Error will be generated if they are not given.

As it stands, the script quite possible needs to be revised almost entirely sooner or later anyway.

In reply to Re^2: Filesystem and SMB/NFS share Access by PerlingAround
in thread Filesystem and SMB/NFS share Access by PerlingAround

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