in reply to error mapping drive

'\\PC11659­7\print' is the same as '\PC116597\print' or '\\PC116597\\print'. I suggest you use '\\\\PC116597\\print'. I think that relying on the fact that '\p' gets translated into the same thing as '\\p' is just the thing that leads to this type of mistake.

Update: And including $strDrive and $strPath in your error message would have shown you the problem immediately, so you might want to reinforce that habit.

- tye        

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Re^2: error mapping drive ('\\')
by djbryson (Beadle) on Jan 11, 2007 at 22:02 UTC
    funny, i tried \\\\PC116597\\print already and it didn't work, but it works now. I must have had something else wrong. I figured the single quotes would handle it. You're right, i should have outputted the path var. Well, it's successfully mapping the drive, but for some reason my error still comes true. This line: 
     $objNetwork->MapNetworkDrive($strDrive, $strPath) || print "failed ma
+pping $strPath\n";

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    It still prints failed even though it worked... hmmm Thanks for your help!
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      It still prints failed even though it worked

      WSH-methods which don't return some other "object", more often then not return nothing at all. So you can't check for a success/failure return value as in $obj->method() || die; with those methods.

      From your observation this seems to be the case here, too.

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[d/l]
        That's what i thought. Thanks for your help monks!
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