Connection Refused when trying to access UNC path from Batch file...

Hello everyone,

This is my first post so I'd like to start by saying hello!

I am running a PERL script which has some embedded SQL in it. When the SQL runs it creates an XML file (This all works fine). Once I have my XML file I run a batch script (FOP.bat) on the XML that was created by the SQL. This batch script is what creates a PDF from XML.

system("..\\fop\\fop.bat -xsl input.xsl -xml trash.xml -pdf pdfs\\TIPsheet_$cur_date4.pdf");

My problem occurs when the batch file tries to access a UNC path on a different server to get images for the PDF. The server I am grabbing the images from is a 2000 server and I am running the script from the Win2k3 box. When the script tries to grab the image from the UNC path I encounter this error.:

ERROR : //gpgarchive/archive/cover_scans/1591580/1591580439.jpg) : Connection refused : Connect.

If I type this UNC path into a run window on the Win2k3 box the image opens up fine. For some reason I just can't access the images from the batch file. I am logged in as administrator on the Win2k3 box and all permissions are set to full access... Anybody have any ideas?

You may have some firewall blocking the connection between computers.

Or more likely, the user account used by the web server is a local account to the web server computer and has no permission to use the other computer.