Hi,

I'm creating a Perl CGI script to read and write files on a windows share. I've created a very basic script which writes some lines to a file on the share, and while it works fine from the command line, it won't run as a CGI script - the open command fails. The script is served by IIS running on Win2000 server.

Here's the code - nothing special... 
$file = "//my_machine/share/file1.txt";
unless (open (FILE, $file)) {
   die "Couldn't open $file."
} 
@file = <FILE>;
close FILE;
print @file;

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OK, there's no HTML here, but I'm getting the error message "Couldn't open $file" as a header.

Perhaps this is a windows permissions issue more than a Perl one? Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks,
A

In reply to Windows Share Access from CGI Script by qadwjoh

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