Getting Perl to link across a peer to peer network....

[josephc at etards.net]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Derek Martin wrote:

> [malevolent top-posting repaired]
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:01:56PM -0500, josephc at etards.net wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, kgleason.ma.ultranet at rcn.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I've cloned a CGI Perl script to run on my Windows98 server \\B0
> > > but am having trouble getting my html form on my local computer to
> > > recognize the UNC link. Any suggestions?
> >
> > map the network drive to a drive letter on your PC.
> 
> If the client PC is Linux?
>

Well if that's the case, then you need to mount \\bo on the client. I 
think there is a SMB module for Perl, but it's very shaky and really not 
worht theoverhead when you think about it.
 
> > BTW, this really isn't linux related
> 
> If the client PC is Linux?
> 

fair enough :)

> So, my question is, what OS is the client PC running?  Presumably you
> mean your web browser (not the HTML form) doesn't recognize the UNC
> link, no?  What browser are you using?  If my questions indicate that
> I do not understand the problem, can you please elaborate?
> 
>