Hi,
I create a cgi script (perl) that does some maintenance jobs, deleting old files, backup files, and other tasks. All maintenancejobs started manually from my cgi script, using popupmenus and submit knobs.

This is no problem to do, as long as I'm maintaining the IIS servers local disks, but when trying to access/maintain "everyone-full-control-shares" on a cople of other servers, I get access denied. (Servers are in workgroups, not in domains)
access Denied is good for securityreasons, but not good for what I want to achieve with my script, just now.

There is probably a possibility to set up the remote shares I want to maintain as zero-session-share, but I would prefer to pass on a login and a password, and get access that way, or at least in one way or another (pretend to) have som security. Anyone who can give me some directions/ideas?

The maintainroutine in my script, can be called from dos prompt, with some arguments, that works fine, and mapped shares are accessed/maintaned without any problem. So the access-denied-problem is due to the 'cgi/web' enviroment restrictions.

Regards
Sten

In reply to W32: How can cgi scripts access shares on other w32 servers by Sten

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