in reply to accessing another widows machine

Maybe your seach was blank because you are trying to access a "widow's" machine?? (Sorry - could not resist)

What are you trying to access? The file system?

Smaug.
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Short of information I'm assuming you want to access a file share on a Windows machine, from another Windows machine. If that is the case, standard UNC paths should work.
Try:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $sharename="//servername/directory/";

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I think that Win32::NetResource might help you, but I can't get it installed to check. I'll post something if I get an answer to CPAN Module Compile Error

Good luck!
<Final update...>
Ok, so the Win32 module will not install on Linux (duh!!). Luckily digger has supplied the code you need.