Python: Accessing Windows mapped network drive with known URL, but unknown drive letter

Question

I am trying to write a Python script that can move and copy files on a remote Linux server. However, I can\'t assume that everyone running the script (on Windows) will have mapp

Answer 1

Try using the short name instead of the fully qualified name. In you example that would be \\name-of-machine\var\SomeFile.txt.

Edit:

Okay, now I feel like a dummy -- hopefully you'll feel like one with me! ;)

The machine name is name-of-machine.site.company.com, and the folder and file name is \var\SomeFile.txt -- what is the share name? In other words, your path should be something like:

\\name-of-machine.site.company.com\share_name\var\SomeFile.txt

Answer 2

Not a very elegant solution, but you could just try all the drives?

From here:

import win32api

drives = win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
drives = drives.split('\000')[:-1]
print drives

Then you could use os.path.exists() on every drive:\var\SomeFile.txt until you find the right one.

Answer 3

Easy solution is to use forward slashes to specify the Universal Name Convention (UNC):

//HOST/share/path/to/file

Found this solution in another thread and felt it would be relevant here. See original thread below:

Using Python, how can I access a shared folder on windows network?

Answer 4

If you can reserve a drive letter for this task, and you have the privileges then you can run "net use ..." from python and then use that fixed drive letter to read/write files.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/net_use.mspx?mfr=true