Hello Monks! I am an amatuer in Perl and have created a simple DB insert script that is giving login issues. The script is invoked by an application upon an event. The DB connection part of the script does not use credentials(user & pass). When I place the script in the C:\ of the application's server and run it from command line, it runs fine, but when I place the script in a mapped drive of the same server (accessible from other servers but meant only for this application) and invoke it via the application I get an error 'Login failed for user 'HASH(0x34882c)'(SQL-28000)'. I know the former is using the serviceacct credentials and hence succeeding but the latter is what has got me puzzled.

The not putting in the user and pass is a requirement by our infosec. I was asked to use Active Directory to use the credentials of the server the application is residing on. Since I am new to this aspect of Perl, I did some searching online and found that LDAP might be the way to go but I haven't played around with AD nor LDAP at all, so a little lost and would greatly appreciate any kind of help or direction. I have included below the DB piece of my code for reference. Also, I am on Windows Server Ent.

Thanks!
my $server_name = 'production\reporting';
my $database_name = 'test';

my $DSN = "driver={SQL Server};server=$server_name;database=$database_
+name;"; 

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN", {PrintError =>0, RaiseError =>
+1});

eval {
    if (!$dbh) {                        print "Could not connect to da
+tabase: $DBI::errstr";
    }

    if($dbh) {
        print "Connected to DB!!";
    }

    my $sql = "INSERT INTO Count VALUES ()";

    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $sth->execute();
    };
if($@) {
    $dbh->disconnect();
    QuitProgram("DB Failure: $@");
}

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