Try print $_, $/ for <//hostname/sharname/*>

Or print $_, $/ for <//${ENV{COMPUTERNAME}}/perl/*>; to access a local share without hardcoding the local hostname. This work under NT, but I'm not sure about other flavours 95/98 etc.

or 

open DH, '\\hostname\sharename\' or die $!; # NB: single quotes
# or open DH, "\\\\hostname\\sharename\\" ... if you use double quotes
print $_, $/ for readdir DH;

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You could also net use x: \\server\share from the command line or the "Map network drive" from the explorer or Win32::NetResource* to map a local drive specifier to the remote share and then use the standard

 print $_, $/ for <x:/*>; syntax to access it.

* That said, I don't understand the pod for this module enough to offer a code sample for doing this.

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In reply to Re: Manipulating files on Windows shares by BrowserUk
in thread Manipulating files on Windows shares by EyeOpener

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