Re: Cannot acces a remote file

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Re^2: Cannot acces a remote file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 22, 2005 at 14:39 UTC
Actually, using "D$" should work, even without creating a share. Windows provides a "secret" share for every drive where the name of the share is the drive letter followed by a dollar sign. These shares are possibly only available to admins. `$path = '\\\\172.x.x.x\\D$\\foo\\bar\\filename';` [download] Update: Fixed the problem davidrw pointed out.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Cannot acces a remote file by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 22, 2005 at 14:56 UTC
the dollar sign needs escaping, too: `$path = "\\\\172.x.x.x\\D\$\\foo\\bar\\filename";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Cannot acces a remote file by chennaiite (Sexton) on Aug 22, 2005 at 06:09 UTC
Thanks Roger.... I tried both...but no result... It throws cannot open the remote file invalid argument.... Is there anyother way to access the remote file..... Just I want to copy the remote file to local and then make changes,Finally save new updated file in remote place...	[reply]
Re^3: Cannot acces a remote file by sk (Curate) on Aug 22, 2005 at 06:15 UTC
chennaiite, `open` cannot authenticate to the server for you. 1. Make the changes roger has mentioned (i guess you have done that already) 2. Now go to start->RUN and then type \\IP_ADDRESS (corresponding to your server) 3. It will ask you to authenticate, type login and password 4. Now try you perl script again I tried to access the files from one of my computers on my network and i get `Invalid argument at -e line 1`. Ignore the -e part as i was using command line perl. After I authenticated with the machine like the way i just explained i was able to access the file Hope this helps. I am not sure how windows's fileserver works with authentication and hence don't know ways to automate it. On the other hand you can also map your network server to a drive and try to see if that works better for you? update: if you don't know what path to use, just start->run type the ip_address\ and then browse to the directories. In windows explorer if you have turned on "address" bar then you can copy that into your `open` call. Just make sure you escpate `\` with `\\` cheers SK	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Cannot acces a remote file by strat (Canon) on Aug 22, 2005 at 07:35 UTC
It seems you first have to mount a share on the other server... try Win32::NetResource from CPAN, that does a good job If you want to find out what to do, try the dosbox command `net use z: \\172.22.1.73\D$ /user:administrator secret` (if secret is the password). If you type \\172.22.1.73 in your windows explorer and you see the share (e.g. with the name d), then use something like `net use z: \\172.22.1.73\D /user:me secret` (net help use gives you more information about this) If that works fine, you've got enough information to mount it with Win32::NetResource Best regards, perl -e "s>>F>e=>y)\martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Cannot acces a remote file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 22, 2005 at 14:43 UTC
It seems you first have to mount a share on the other server. Perl's `open` can handle UNC paths, but that's true if you need to login as someone different than on the current machine	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Cannot acces a remote file by Roger (Parson) on Aug 22, 2005 at 06:13 UTC
How is the remote drive exported in the first place? Can you browse it at all? Why don't you open the explorer session, and manually browse to the location of the file under the NETWORK NEIGHBOURHOOD, and grab the fullpath name in the address bar. Then apply the double backslash bits to make it work?	[reply]
Re^3: Cannot acces a remote file by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 22, 2005 at 06:17 UTC
Does the remote machine have an FTP server (and this file available through it)? If so, this task would be very easy with Net::FTP. But if not, as Roger says you need to determine how the file is shared by windows.	[reply]