Map Local Drive Win32

briannz556 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to be able to map a local drive in Win32. A DOS command for this is something like:

subst w: "c:\program files\something"

Can someone guide me to a Perl equivalent?

NB: I'm familar with Win32::OLE->CreateObject("WScript.Network") and MapNetworkDrive but that doesn't feel right.

Appreciate any help.

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Re: Map Local Drive Win32 by tokpela (Chaplain) on Sep 22, 2009 at 09:18 UTC
The Win32::FileOp module provides both Map and Subst routines.	[reply]
Re: Map Local Drive Win32 by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2009 at 05:50 UTC
`system 'subst', 'w:', "C:\\program files\\something";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Map Local Drive Win32 by cdarke (Prior) on Sep 22, 2009 at 08:09 UTC
You might be able to achieve this by altering the registry instead, see Wikipedia for some hints. Win32::TieRegistry is an easy way to interface the registry. Watch out for peristence (or not) across reboots.	[reply]
Re: Map Local Drive Win32 by ccn (Vicar) on Sep 22, 2009 at 05:51 UTC
You may consider to call system with `subst` as an argument	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Map Local Drive Win32 by briannz556 (Beadle) on Sep 22, 2009 at 10:37 UTC
Thanks so much guys for that help. I'll try out the many options when I'm at work tomorrow. Appreciate the time taken to help.	[reply]