Sure, just make sure you have enough backslashes :-)

You should only need to map the share if you have a program that doesn't accept UNCs or if you need to run a program with the path being the current directory. Because current directory can't be UNC.

If you do happen to need that you can find out what drives are mapped and which ones are free by Win32::FileOp::Mapped(), or you can call the Map() like this:

my $drive = Map '\\\\server\\share';
chdir("$drive\\some\\directory");
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