Re: Error: Read a PPD for 'Win32-Lanman', but ..not intended ..for this build (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10)

[NetWallah]

You may want to look at some ready-made code, here in the Code Catacombs, NT Admin section:
Hardware/Software Inventory by shonorio.

Some code from the XP cookbook may help:

# From the book "Windows XP Cookbook"
# ISBN: 0596007256

# Note that you cannot use this to connect to the local machine.
# ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------

use Win32::OLE;

$strServer = '<HostName>';
# e.g. wks01
$strUser = '<User>';
# e.g. AMER\rallen.adm
$strPasswd = '<Password>';
# ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
$objLocator = Win32::OLE->new('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator');
$objWMI = $objLocator->ConnectServer($strServer, 'root\\cimv2', $strUs
+er, $strPasswd);
if ((0 + Win32::OLE::LastError()) != 0) {
    print 'Authentication failed: ' . ('' . Win32::OLE::LastError()), 
+"\n";
}

# Now you can use the objWMI object to get an instance of a class
# or perform a WQL query. Here is an example:
$colDisks = $objWMI->InstancesOf('Win32_LogicalDisk')->Item;

[gctaylor1]

Thanks for the tip NetWallah. Unfortunately I'm not having much luck with this example. I get a  Use of unintialized value $colDisks in concatenation (.) or string at line 27.error. I did get one of the examples to work so it's not all bad. I think I'll need to suck it up and study COM and/or Windows scripting stuff for a while to understand what WMI and SWbemServices are. Maybe then I'll have a clue.

If anyone reading this might have a tip for a good book on this, that would be good. I'm not a programmer(Yet. That's why I'm studying Perl) so I assume it would have to be VB, VBscript, or something basic like that. As opposed to .net?