You need somebody who knows about scripting across a windows network under
Windows2000 or later, and that isn't me, I'm afraid.
You are in the right group.
You might try re-posting with a subject like "perl access, XP to XP across
network"
to see if you can reach somebody who is familiar with how to do this.
I suspect that the issue is that the script is running in the security
context of the local system--just as if it were scheduled by the scheduler,
and you need it to be running in a user context--the logged in user, for
example (since you as a logged in user have the correct access.)
I just don't know enough about how to define this to tell you what to do.
> > This is probably a security issue.
> > Let me see if I can get the terminology straight:
> > Machine 1 is the machine with the HTTP server, and the perl script.
> > Machine 2 is where the files that the script needs to act on exist.
> Exactly.
> > Can you, sitting at the desktop/keyboard of Machine 1, work with those
> files
> > on Machine 2?
> Yes, I can view, read and write files on Windows' explorer from 1 machine
to
> another.
> > I believe the issue is that you need the perl script to be running in a
> > security context which has permissions to work with the files on machine
> 2.
> When I run it on command prompt, it prints "Exist" as in the following
> simple perl script.
> ex) c:\>c:\usr\local\bin\perl test.cgi
> To simplify, the perl script only has this statement to check for another
> comps existance.
> ----------
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; //for browser
> if(-e "//notebookpc/c") { print "Exist"; } //"-e" checks if that
> file/folder exists or not
> else { "Not found"; }
> ----------
> But when I access the file through http server
> ex) http://127.0.0.1/test.cgi
> This prints "Not found".
> So I'm assuming that requests coming from internet(though local) might be
> kicked out by WinXP
> even with the built-in firewall settings disabled.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> I'm just making file synchronizing script for my comps.
> It was working on WinME
> , now WinXP blew it up.
> > By default, over a network, this means an account with a username and
> > password valid on Machine2.
> > How does the script connect to the share on which the files exist? Does
> it
> > pass credentials as part of that connection process?
> > I probably should not have answered this one, because I know next to
> nothing
> > about HTTP and Perl scripts, but this may be enough to head you in the
> right
> > direction.
> > > I have 2 machines both having XP WITHOUT the builit-in firewall
setting
> > > enabled.
> > > I'm running an http server on 1 of the machine on which I want to run
a
> > perl
> > > script that accesses the files on the other machine.
> > > The script worked fine when I was having WinME but no longer works on
> > WinXP.
> > > Running the script locally(executing it via command prompt) does the
> job,
> > > but when I call the script by accessing the local web server, it does
> not
> > > work.
> > > How can I make this to work?
> > > Thanks in advance.
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