Doublecheck that the unescaped backslash isn't your problem:
my %netresource = (
# RemoteName => "\\\\server\share" ,
RemoteName => "\\\\server\\share" ,
);
Mark
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Win32::NetResource problem
From: Natxo Asenjo <natxo.ase...@gmail.com>
To: perl-win32-admin@listserv.ActiveState.com
<perl-win32-admin@listserv.ActiveState.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:20:15 AM
> hi,
>
> I need to mount a samba share from Perl. This is the code:
>
> #!perl
>
> use warnings;
> use strict;
>
> use Win32::NetResource;
>
> my %netresource = (
> RemoteName => "\\\\server\share" ,
> );
>
> my $username = "user" ; # also tried "workgroup\\user"
> my $password = "password" ;
>
> # print "$username\n" ;
> # print "$password\n" ;
>
> my $mapping = Win32::NetResource::AddConnection(
> \%netresource, $username, $password, 0 ) or warn win32err();
>
> sub win32err {
> my $err;
> Win32::NetResource::GetError($err);
> Win32::FormatMessage($err);
> }
>
> When I run it, I get:
>
> Z:\scripts>perl mapshare.pl
> The specified network password is not correct.
>
> I know the username/password combo is correct, because using net use
> it works. I have tried adding the workgroup to the $username like so:
> $username = "workgroup\\user" but to no avail.
>
> The samba server is not a part of a domain, it has its own workgroup.
>
> Has anyone gotten such a setup to work?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Groeten,
> natxo
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