<kbd>$formdata{file}</kbd> ? could it be that you are disregarding the three rules of cgi-programming ?

1. thou shalt use CGI.pm
2. thou shalt use CGI.pm
3. thou shalt use CGI.pm

Another point: I think you have mixed up file upload via HTTP and copying across a network. if you are using a browser to upload, you do not need to copy the file across the network from your perl script. it's already on your webserver, in a temporary file, it was transferred via HTTP.

Try this:

use CGI;
use strict;

my $query = new CGI;

if ( $query->upload('file') ) {
      my ($fh,$info,$sourcefilename,$targetdir);
      my ($targetfilename, $type);
      $fh = $query->upload('file');
     
      $info = $query->uploadInfo($fh)->{'Content-Disposition'};
      
      $sourcefilename = "somefile.dat";
      if ($info =~ m/filename="(.*?)"/) {
          $sourcefilename = $1;
      }
         
      $type = $query->uploadInfo($fh)->{'Content-Type'};
      $targetdir = "\\\\Giotto\\recourse";
      $targetfilename = "$targetdir\\$sourcefilename";

      print "<p>The target directory for this file is: $targetdir";
      print "<br>The info about this upload field was: $info";
      print "<br>The original filename was : $sourcefilename";
      print "<br>The type was : $type";
      print "<br>This makes the target path: $targetfilename";
      
      open(OUT, ">$targetfilename");
      binmode($fh);
      while(<$fh>) {
          print OUT;
      }
      close OUT;
     
}
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On my (Win98) Machine I get the following output:

The target directory for this file is: \\Giotto\recourse
The info about this upload field was: form-data; name="file"; filename="Artistic.txt"
The original filename was : Artistic.txt
The type was : text/plain
This makes the target path: \\Giotto\recourse\Artistic.txt

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Brigitte    'I never met a chocolate I didnt like'    Jellinek
http://www.horus.com/~bjelli/         http://perlwelt.horus.at

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