Suppose I'm about to open a file on \\machine\share\path\file.ext. It will fail unless this session is "logged into" that machine, and if it doesn't have an account name and password that matches the one I'm running under here. Calling system "NET USE ..." is one way, but I've been advised that newer versions have a nasty "enhancement" to the NET USE command-line utility, and pop open an explorer window immediatly to the referenced location, which also steals focus away from the current program.

Also, calling a separate program doesn't give good access to error values.

It looks like Win32::NetResource::AddConnection is what I'm looking for, but I can't make heads or tails of the documentation as found in Dave Roth's book.

Has anyone done this? What's a good way to do it?

—John

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