NetServerDiskEnum in win32net

[Uwe Becher]

Tim Golden wrote:
> Uwe Becher <ubecher at gmx.net> wrote in message news:<bilh88$rs3$03$1 at news.t-online.com>...
> 
>>I try to get all logical drives of a remote machine (WinNT or W2K) and 
>>get a result, that gives me the expected total but not all expected drives.
>>
>>Example:
>>
>> >>> win32net.NetServerDiskEnum('nor1w020', 0) gives me:
>>([u'A:', u'', u'C:', u'', u'D:', u'', u'E:', u''], 8, 0)
>>
>>while the machine has the local drives
>>A: C: D: E: F: G: H: Z:
>>A: - Floppy
>>Z: - CDROM
>>All others are harddisk partitions on two physical drives
>>
>>Does anyone have an idea?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Uwe
> 
> 
> I had the same problem, and to my shame I didn't raise it as a bug, I
> simply bypassed it (because my DBA needed the info immediately anyway)
> by using wmi. Have a look at
> http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html and then try something
> like this:
> 
> <code>
> 
> import wmi
> c = wmi.WMI ("") # or whatever host name
> 
> for disk in c.Win32_LogicalDisk (DriveType=3):
>   print disk.Caption
> 
> </code>
> 
> TJG
Tim,

that did the job, thanks!