MAP network drive 1

[mikeprestim]

Is there a perl module or is there a way to map a network share using perl ?.

even better also allowing connection with a different user name. I want to put this on a win98 setup.

I do not want to do a system call to net

Thanks

Mike McMahon

 

[DANZIG]

In the current version of Perl for Win32, and the current version of the standard distribution, opendir fails on UNC paths. You can work around this by mapping a drive to the UNC share before using directory handles, and then using the drive letter as the path instead of the UNC path. You can do this with the Win32::NetResource module extension (see the AddConnection function) or with the Windows NT net use command

The Win32::NetResource module allows you to manage shared resources on a network, such as printers, disks, etc.

AddConnection (\%netresource, password, username, connection)
Connects to the resource described in %netresource, with the password and username of the user. The connection flag indicates whether the connection should be remembered for the user for all logins.