Your URL for the remote file is wrong in several places.

1. Backslashs inside the string. The backslash will escape the next character. You will need two backslashes to represent a single backslash.

eg.   "\\\\172.x.x.x\\foo\\bar"
[download]

2. How the "D:" drive is exported from the other machine. I would think that something like

"\\\\172.x.x.x\\D\\foo\\bar\\filename"
[download]

would be more appropriate.

But I am not an expert in Windows, so you could be right in 2, but 1 is definitely wrong.

---

---

• Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
• Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:

  <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>

• Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
• Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.