Hm, yes I understand that. It seems that the OP wants to reduce it to two machines: the Solaris machine and the XP server. The original question involves replacing an FTP send from XP->Solaris to a SMB pull from Solaris->XP.

What I don't understand is why that is the required solution. If the Perl script runs on XP instead of Solaris, then the CSV file is already available, and FTP can be used to obtain the dir listing. No notebook required, no file transfer.

If, for some reason, I'm still missing something, the smbmount DOES have login options: smbmount //host/share /mnt/point -o username=user,password=pass