get files on remote share

devlele has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

User will type the remote share on the command prompt as argument (For example: \\server\sharename). I want to login to that share and get the filenames in that path. [For example: if the sharename is \\abc\def, I have to log into that and get all the filenames in def directory. How should I proceed ? What modules should I use ? I figured out that for getting the filenames, I can use FILE::FIND but what to do with connection ?

Please Help.
Thanks.

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Re: get files on remote share by holli (Abbot) on Jan 26, 2006 at 18:06 UTC
You want Win32::NetResource - manage network resources in perl. Edit: If you are running Windows of course. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply]
Re^2: get files on remote share by glasswalk3r (Friar) on Jan 26, 2006 at 18:14 UTC
You can access the shared resource just mapping before the shared directory in a Drive unit, like `F:\`, for example. After that, you just need to supply the complete pathname. But using the related module is probably a more robust solution. Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior --------------------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill	[reply] [d/l]