File::Find package

[pankajit09]

File::Find traverses a network folder also.

If I give \\ipaddress\dir it works but not when \\ipaddress .

How to make it traverse all the shared folders of a machine by inputting the IPAddress only?

[ezechiel]

I don't know, but isn't it possible to put the directories of \\ipaddress in a list and then do a find in that list?

But I don't know if this works (just starting with Perl):

my $homedir = "\\\\ipaddress";
opendir (IMD, $homedir) or die "Couldn't find dir: IMD ($!)";
my @thefiles= readdir(IMD);
closedir(IMD);

[RonB]

File::Find traverses a network folder also.

If I give \\ipaddress\dir it works but not when \\ipaddress .

How to make it traverse all the shared folders of a machine by inputting the IPAddress only?

You can't

A unc path is \\server(name or ip)\sharename\dir where dir is optional

Without the sharename the unc path is incomplete and can not be searched.

[pankajit09]

You can't

A unc path is \\server(name or ip)\sharename\dir where dir is optional

Without the sharename the unc path is incomplete and can not be searched.

When I give the UNC path with only the IPADDRESS in the "run" box and press the enter button it shows all the shared folders.

[pankajit09]

I don't know, but isn't it possible to put the directories of \\ipaddress in a list and then do a find in that list?

But I don't know if this works (just starting with Perl):

my $homedir = "\\\\ipaddress";
opendir (IMD, $homedir) or die "Couldn't find dir: IMD ($!)";
my @thefiles= readdir(IMD);
closedir(IMD);

No it doesn't work if we give only the IPADDRESS.

[RonB]

When I give the UNC path with only the IPADDRESS in the "run" box and press the enter button it shows all the shared folders.

That's because the "run box" is a Windows application which, when given a partial unc path, "knows" that it needs to make calls to 1 or more dll functions that can get the list of share names.

Try doing it from the command line.
Example:

C:\>dir \\10.100.0.118
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

C:\>dir \\10.100.0.118\c$
 Volume in drive \\10.100.0.118\c$ has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 3019-C2D7

 Directory of \\10.100.0.118\c$

02/11/2009  01:49 PM            18,791 021scan.txt
02/11/2009  10:20 AM            19,141 021scan.txt.bak
...
...

If you want, you could use Win32::API to call the dll functions that return the list of shares, however that's not as easy as you might think.