I've been working on an ASP using PerlScript under IIS 6.0. Recently I was told that the directory that I've been walking needs to be moved to another server and the only way I can interact with it is though a UNC file path. Alas, the script that worked fine with local directories can't see the UNC directories at all when run through an ASP page.

For instance, this works fine from the command prompt: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my $path = '//myuncserver/wwwroot$';
my @entry = stat($path) or die "Couldn't stat $path : $!";
print Dumper(@entry);

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but doesn't work from the ASP page. 
<%@ LANGUAGE="perlscript" >
<%
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use vars qw($Response);
my $path = '//myuncserver/wwwroot$';
my @entry = stat($path) or die "Couldn't stat $path : $!";

$Response->Write(Dumper(@entry))
%>

PerlScript Error error '80004005' 
(in cleanup) Couldn't stat //myuncserver/wwwroot$ : No such file or di
+rectory 
/testdir/walk2.asp, line 8

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Does anyone have any idea what magic spell I need to cast over IIS to get it to be able to read a UNC path from a ASP PerlScript page?

Thanks!

In reply to Reading UNC File Paths from ASP PerlScripts by RodgerFlint

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