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