Map drives and printers from Perl

[thparkth]

Category:

Win32 Stuff

Description:

It's very easy to map a drive or a printer on your Windows workstation from Perl. This makes it very practical to write login scripts in Perl. I have not been able to find a pure-Perl method to check for the success of these operations. They always return success and no error variables are set.

use Win32::OLE;
my $workstation=Win32::OLE->CreateObject("WScript.Network");

# Add a printer
my $printerpath='\\\\server\\printername';
$workstation->AddWindowsPrinterConnection($printerpath);

# Make it the default
$workstation->SetDefaultPrinter($printerpath);

# Map a network drive
my $drivepath='\\\\server\\sharename';
$workstation->MapNetworkDrive("X:",$drivepath);

[ikegami]

my $printerpath="\\server\printername";
should be
my $printerpath="\\\\server\\printername";

$workstation->MapNetworkDrive("X:",\\server\path);
should be
$workstation->MapNetworkDrive("X:","\\\\server\\path");

And it would be good if you showed how to check for success.