You don't tell us what webserver you are using, but from the problem you have, I guess it is IIS. Under IIS, all CGI scripts run as the SYSTEM user or the IIS user, however it's called. Neither have privileges to access network shares, and it would be a bad security decision to give them those privileges.

I can only recommend you to get a real database instead of trying to connect via SMB shares. You could look at DBD::Proxy and have it running on the other machine and connect from your script on the server to the proxy, or you could run DBD::Proxy on your webserver as a different user.

In reply to Re: Logging onto other Domain PC from CGI Shell by Corion
in thread Logging onto other Domain PC from CGI Shell by roscomputing

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