Hi Monks.

I need to check connection to a particular Windows Share using the windows Net Use command.The output of Net use command is as follows:

New connections will be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network

----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
OK                    \\10.81.253.70\G$          Microsoft Windows Net
+work
Disconnected           \\10.81.253.140\IPC$      Microsoft Windows Net
+work
The command completed successfully.
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Now to check connection for IP \\10.81.253.70\G$ , I wrote the following code

$inputDirectory="\\\\10.81.253.70\\G\$";
my $c = `net use`;
my $unc = 0;
my $h;
my @a=split(' ',$c);
foreach $h (@a)
{
    if ($h eq 'OK' || $h eq 'Disconnected')
    {
        $status =$h;
        $temp=1;
    }
    elsif($temp == 1)
    {
        my $remote=$h;
        if($status eq 'OK' && $remote eq $inputDirectory)
        {
        $unc=1;
        }
        $temp = 0;
    }
}
if ($unc == 1)
{
    print "UNC is Connected";
}    
else
{
    print "UNC is Disconnected";
}
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This works fine BUT if the share name is "\\10.81.253.70\file data\query files" than is fails because i am splitting the output of net use command on every space encountered so if the given share name contains spaces in its name than it breakes the share name on spaces , thus defeating my purpose. Please provide some help or tell how can i check connectivity to shares in windows through perl?