well, it depends on how you want to control the script (via web? via console or GUI?) and how you can access the win2000 machine (via samba/network neighborhood, ftp, http,...)

these two systems are in a LAN . i want to know hw i can get files from a dirctory of windows to a freeBSD system. The script will run in a regular intervals. say once in every 10 min. and also after getting the file i want to delete the files from the windows system. these systems have a trusted connection.

use Filesys::SmbClient;
use POSIX;
  my $smb = new Filesys::SmbClient(username  => "alian",
               password  => "speed",
               workgroup => "alian",
               debug     => 10);
         # Read a file
         my $fd = smb->open("smb://jupiter/doc/general.css", '0666');
         while (defined(my $l= $smb->read($fd,50))) {print $l; }
         $smb->close(fd);

         # ...
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