What I am trying to accomplish: I want to move files from various network shares to the hosting server.

the hosting server: \\web02
network shares: \\host01\iso, \\host02\iso

When a user clicks a link on the website, it will run a perl script on the hosting server that will copy iso files on the share to the hosting server. my code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w                                      
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

$dirname = "\\\\host01\\ISO";
opendir ( DIR, $dirname ) || print "error: $!<br>";
while( ($filename = readdir(DIR))){
     print("$filename<br>");
}
closedir(DIR);

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If I open a web browser on the hosting server and click the link, the script will work and display the contents of the folder, however, when I try it on any other server, it gives the error: No such file or directory. The script works on any server if run from the command line.

In reply to Hyperlinking to Perl script to access network shares. by khangol

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