ok i narrowed it down, not the web server but possibly the script. When the script goes and access's the unc path, it indicates that the No such file or directory at within the webpage that I am viewing. When i run it from cmd line, it works.
Is there any verbose logging i can setup that will tell me why it cannot find the directly, something along with the lines of an auth error.
right now I have or die $!
You eliminated the second possible reason I gave, leaving the first.
The user as which web server executes CGI scripts doesn't have permission to access the network. You need to give that user that permission or run the script as a user that does have that permission.