I've been so overwhelmed by the excellent responses I've received to my previous queries that I'd like to request some assistance with another problem I've been avoiding for ages.

Many of my scripts run on Win32 (since this is the platform I support at work), however I've managed to hide a Linux box in a dark corner and would like to run some of the scripts on it.

The main obstacle is that in the scripts I can use lines such as:

open INFILE, "< //server/share/logfile.txt" or die "Ouch";
[download]

The only way I can see to access these logs under Linux (without installing FTP servers all over the place) is to mount the share, access the file, then unmount the share.

This seems very messy to me, and definitely isn't good if I'm reading logs from a large number of workstations.

Is there a better way to do it?

Thanks,

Gordon.

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