note nimdokk As mentioned, I have but a flea in the vendor's ear to address this. I've also found that via the COM objects they have available, we cannot authenticate with a domain account (even though we can use the same domain account via the GUI) even with hardcoded user name/password. This is not a Perl problem, but missing functionality (especially if they recommend not exposing passwords when using their COM API. 928590 928636