Re: How do you Map & Disconnect Network Drives (in Windows)?

Do you need to map the shares to drive letters at all? You can access files on the shares directly by using their UNC names:

my $server = "\\\\$machine\\C\$";
my $fullname = "$server\\some\\file";
open my $fh, "<", $fullname
    or die "Couldn't open '$fullname': $!";
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Re^2: How do you Map & Disconnect Network Drives (in Windows)? by perlofwisdom (Pilgrim) on Mar 26, 2008 at 13:48 UTC
Thank you for the suggestion (and the code snippet), that would solve all sorts of problems. Unfortunately, I hit an "Access denied" issue (which is a whole other problem). It's curious though because when I "map" the drive, I have full rights.	[reply]
Re^3: How do you Map & Disconnect Network Drives (in Windows)? by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 26, 2008 at 13:55 UTC
The file access runs as the current user with the permissions of the current user. If you want to do the access with the credentials of a different user, you will either have to use the impersonation APIs or map the network drive.	[reply]