On Dec 28, 2007 9:45 AM, Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 5:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas. Owens) wrote:
>
> > You are not using the strict pragma (this doesn't effect your current
> > problem, but it is still a bad idea).
>
> Like I said, I'm new to Perl. By "pragma" I guess you mean syntax?
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Pragmas are "pragmatic instructions". In Perl, they are the lowercase
modules likes strict, bytes, warnings, etc. They alter the way Perl
understands your code. The strict pragma
use strict;
plugs a few holes in the Perl 5 language that have been left open for
backwards compatibility and to aid in the use of perl as a command
line utility (as in perl -ple '$_=y/,//'). Pragmas tend to be
lexically scoped. This means they only have effect inside the block
they are defined in:
my $char = "\x{2603}"; #a Unicode snowman
#out here we use character semantics so the length of $char is 1
my $char_len = length $char;
my $byte_len;
{
use bytes;
#but inside these braces we are using byte semantics due
#to the bytes pragma, so the length is 3 (Unicode U+2603 is
#E2, 98, and 83 in UTF-8)
$byte_len = length $char;
}
#and we are back to character semantics
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> > It also looks (based on the answer to your second question) like X: is
> > not a valid name. Is it possible that you have already mapped a drive
> > to X:?
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Then it is likely there is some other problem with using X: as the
local name; have you tried other drive letters?
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> Of course not :) I'm new to Perl, not computers. :)
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Hey, I have called tech support for something that wasn't plugged in
before. Well, it was partially plugged in, so it _looked_ plugged in.
Checking assumed facts is part of troubleshooting.
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> > > 2. Where can I find the error codes and their meanings?
> >
> > I would suggest consulting the
> > oracle:http://www.google.com/search?q=smb+error+code+1200
> >
> > From that search I learned the 1200 means "The specified device name
> > is invalid."
>
> The unavoidable Google :)) Of course, how stupid of me. But why smb in
> the query?
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The SMB (aka Server Message Block*) protocol is how Microsoft does
file/print sharing. You may also know it under the name CIFS. There
is also an FOSS implementation named Samba**. Since the error was
related to file sharing it was a handy way of narrowing down the
results.
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> I played with the program a bit more, and first got error code of 66
> (the network resource type is not correct) and the modified program
> (see below) now gives me code 53 (the network path was not found). I
> also tried playing with Scope, Type etc. to no avail.
>
> I still don't know what I'm doing wrong :(
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> $RemoteShare = {
> # 'Scope' => RESOURCE_CONNECTED,
> # 'Type' => RESOURCETYPE_DISK,
> # 'DisplayType' => RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_SHARE,
> # 'Usage' => RESOURCEUSAGE_CONTAINER,
> 'LocalName' => "X:",
> 'RemoteName' => "\\\\Nash",
> };
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Hmm, does it still work when all you give it is the RemoteName?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
** http://us1.samba.org/samba/
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