It depends on how you are running the CGI script on the Web server.

Typically, if you allow ANONYMOUS access to the CGI script, it runs under the ID IUSER_MachineName.
This user does NOT have access to network shares.

My suggestion is to turn OFF anonymous access, and let the user credentials come in either via integrated authentication, or basic.

There are other ways around this, once you understand the issue. One is to specify specific user credentials to the user script.

Note - I think this explains why the first script failed. The second one with LWP should have worked. The Event log, and IIS logs will provide more clues.

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By guaranteeing freedom of expression, the First Amendment also guarantees offense.

In reply to Re: Using a 2000 Box to Access an Include File from 2003 by NetWallah
in thread Using a 2000 Box to Access an Include File from 2003 by bkiahg

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