Getting Ruby to chdir to remote server on Windows

Question

I am stuck with changing a directory to "\10.10.10.10\D$\some_dir"

FileUtils.chdir("\\\\10.10.10.10\\D$\\some_dir\\")

and

Dir.chdir("\\\\10.10.10.10\\D$\\some_dir\\")

do not work in Ruby 1.9.3! It worked in Ruby 1.8.7

Any ideas how to change dir to a remote box dir?

How do you know it doesn't work? Works for me. What happens when you follow with `puts Dir.pwd`? — Mark Thomas, Sep 06 '12 at 15:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '12 at 15:27

OK that was a problem in windows, it could not access the specified folder on remote box because the credentials were not specified for accessing that folder, all i haqve done is go to win explorer and in address line put the path to that folder on remote box "\10.10.10.10\D$\some_dir" - the credentials is prompted after that , just enter them and put "remember credentials" after you access the folder via explorer the script runs ok

Getting Ruby to chdir to remote server on Windows

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