I recently came across the same problem whilst reinstating an old script that we use for polling Windows boxes for their diskspace.

I also tried installing the missing DLL, which didn't solve the problem. In the end I rewrote my script to use Win32::DriveInfo instead.

I'd suggest not bothering with Win32::AdminMisc and use Net::DNS and even the built-in function gethostbyname.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Socket;

my $Ifile  = 'c:/Perl/RC/PC_List.txt';

# P R O C E S S I N G
#---------------------#

open IPF, "<$Ifile" or die "\n\tCan't open $Ifile :: $!\n";

while (<IPF>) {

   chomp;
   my @fields = split /\|/, $_;

   my $hostname = $fields[0];

   print "\n\tProcessing PC $hostname\n";

   if ( my $ipAddress = gethostbyname( $hostname ) ) {
      print "\n\tThe Ip address for $hostname is", inet_ntoa( $ipAddre
+ss ), "\n" ;
   }
   else
   {
      print "\n\tUnable to resolve IP address for $hostname\n" ;
   }

}

close IPF or die "\n\tCan't close $Ifile :: $!\n" ;

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I never used to have any trouble with Win32::AdminMisc when using ActiveState's Perl 5.8.7, I suspect it is an incompatibility with their 5.8.8 builds

In reply to Re: Win32::AdminMisc Problems by bingos
in thread Win32::AdminMisc Problems by ronniec

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