We recently had need to grab a small file from each of some 100+ boxes (network management devices running NT4 client) to a Perl script running on Solaris. We can't make changes on these clients but the file is available on a network share.

Enter the Filesys::SmbClient module, the documentation of which shows the use of a Tie that would make reading the file much easier. The example however does not pass any parameters like login credentials.

We eventually got the following to work. 

#!perl -w
use strict;
use POSIX;

my @args = (
    username => 'userid',
    password => 'passwd',
    debug => 10
);
my $filename = 'smb://host/directory/file';

local *FD;
tie *FD, 'Filesys::SmbClient', $filename, '0666', @args;

while (<FD>) {print}
close(FD);

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We haven't yet used this in anger, it works on a single device and hopefully on all the rest too.

Comment are welcome on any better way to go about this and the program will only need to be run 2-3 times a year.

In reply to Tie and Filesys::SmbClient by tweetiepooh

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