Copying files to multiple comp's on a lan

[Henrik Berg Nielsen]

Hi once more,

I forgot to mention that the files to be copied range anywhere from 1K to
several hundred MB.

Henrik Berg Nielsen
"Henrik Berg Nielsen" <hbn at imada.sdu.dk> wrote in message
news:9f8k3v$1i04$1 at news.cybercity.dk...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm rather new to Python, and this is my first post in this NG (as you can
> probably tell). I hope that you guys can get the meaning of my writings as
> english is not my native language, so I apology beforehand for any
> spelling/grammatical errors.
>
> I need to make a small script thats capable of copying a file from the
> machine that its being run on to all the other machines on the lan. The
> target path on all the other machines should be the same. The script
should
> take the path of the source file and the remote path to the shared
folder(s)
> as arguments. I'll define all the machines the file is to be copied to
> elsewhere.
>
> Where do I start when making such a script? What kind of builtins should I
> know of and which functions will be useful in my work? What do I need to
> investigate closer (I've never tried network programming before)?
>
> I used to do this filecopying for each machine seperately with the Windows
> Explorer, and seeing as its something that I do rather often, I'm
beginning
> to get a little bugged by this tedious method, and have decided that now
its
> time to make it a little more automated.
> If you know of an already existing program that can accomplish this task
for
> me any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Henrik Berg Nielsen
>
>