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Very neat, I always like pure Perl ways of doing stuff. A couple of thoughts:

If you don't have a Windows domain (i.e. have a set of disparate boxes in workgroups) then you would need to specify a valid account on the remote machine in the form "remotemachinename\\username".

When I ran your code on my machine, I got the following error:

connecting \\server\share to g:
Undefined subroutine &Win32::GetError called at 491533.pl line 54.
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But that could just be me missing something...

I'm also a bit twitchy about leaving a password in clear text lying around, but that's just me :)

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