RE: Measure bandwidth

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Sobey
Thanks for the response. I agree, this wouldn't be a true measure of bandwidth. I am however interested the user experience of moving files from the client machine to the server (all windows). I am doing this for a before and after comparison. The after, is the installation of a CIFS

Perl on Win32: any possibility to emule read_password

2005-05-25 Thread ericv
Hi folks, the question is very simple: the function read_password does not work on Win 32 platforms. I have been searching for a solution everywhere i knew about, without success. how could I achieve my goal, that is exactly to input a password without curious people to see what is written ?

RE: Measure bandwidth

2005-05-25 Thread Peter Eisengrein
If your intention is specifically to measure CIFS performance, copying a few files back and forth would be ok, but try and pick a quiet time on the WAN... I disagree. If the intent it to measure user experience, you probably want to poll at regular intervals (say every 5 minutes) whether

Re: Perl on Win32: any possibility to emule read_password

2005-05-25 Thread $Bill Luebkert
ericv wrote: Hi folks, the question is very simple: the function read_password does not work on Win 32 platforms. I have been searching for a solution everywhere i knew about, without success. how could I achieve my goal, that is exactly to input a password without curious people to

RE: Measure bandwidth

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Sobey
If your intention is specifically to measure CIFS performance, copying a few files back and forth would be ok, but try and pick a quiet time on the WAN... I disagree. If the intent it to measure user experience, you probably want to poll at regular intervals (say every 5

RE: Perl on Win32: any possibility to emule read_password

2005-05-25 Thread ericv
ok Bill, I am talk about the function read_password which is part of the Term module. It apparently works in all other platforms ( unix, etc...) but is know not to work on Win32 ( and i confirm that!) I am working on a command line script, and need to input a password from the console, and

Re: Perl on Win32: any possibility to emule read_password

2005-05-25 Thread $Bill Luebkert
ericv wrote: ok Bill, I am talk about the function read_password which is part of the Term module. It apparently works in all other platforms ( unix, etc...) but is know not to work on Win32 ( and i confirm that!) I am working on a command line script, and need to input a password

Re: Perl on Win32: any possibility to emule read_password

2005-05-25 Thread Alexander Apprich
Hi Eric, ericv wrote: ok Bill, I am talk about the function read_password which is part of the Term module. It apparently works in all other platforms ( unix, etc...) but is know not to work on Win32 ( and i confirm that!) I am working on a command line script, and need to input a

Re: Measure bandwidth

2005-05-25 Thread Eric Logeson
On 5/24/05, $Bill Luebkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Logeson wrote: Hello List I wanted to get some basic bandwidth statistics across a WAN link.The approach I think I am going to take is the following: Use a perl scipt to read in a bunch of files, determine the sizes, start a timer (not

Re: Measure bandwidth

2005-05-25 Thread Jim Hansen
Or use MRTG. Free and written in Perl. MJGEric Logeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List I wanted to get some basic bandwidth statistics across a WAN link. The approach I think I am going to take is the following: Usea perl scipt to read in a bunch of files, determine the sizes, start a timer

Help with Win32::API?

2005-05-25 Thread Matt Clark
I've just started playing around with Win32::API, and I'm trying to import the DSBrowseForContainerW function from dsuiext.dll ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ad/ad/dsbrowseforcontainer.asp ), but I can't seem to get it working. Can someone tell me what's wrong with the following

Perl as CGI writting to shares

2005-05-25 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I realize this is not strickly the correct place to ask but I'm hoping for some direction. My Google searches have not been useful. I have a script that is called as a CGI ( index.pl ) that needs to write some configuration data to a ( mapped/mounted ) share on another system. To date I've

RE: Perl as CGI writting to shares

2005-05-25 Thread Steven Manross
You're likely running into issues with NTLM authentication on the other box.. You'll have to check what user account IIS is running as (for anonymous access) to the web server. If it's a local account, You'll need to either: --Create an account on the box you are mapping that exactly matches

Re: Help with Win32::API?

2005-05-25 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: Matt Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Win32::API-Import('dsuiext', 'int DSBrowseForContainerW(LPDSBROWSEINFOW pInfo)'); print $! . \n; The function is called DsBrowseForContainer() - not as you have written it. (It matters :-) If you use $^E (as recommended in

Re: Help with Win32::API?

2005-05-25 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: Sisyphus [EMAIL PROTECTED] The function is called DsBrowseForContainer() - not as you have written it. (It matters :-) I meant DsBrowseForContainerW() - not as *I* have written it. (It possibly also matters :-) Cheers, Rob