Win32 drive mapping... aka "net use"

[Roger Upole]

You could use win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings to list
the drive letters currently in use, and find the next free
letter.  net use * probably does something like that under
the covers.

     hth
          Roger

"Lucas Machado" <LMachado1 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1110044817.235507.299580 at o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>
> Alex Martelli wrote:
>
>> import win32net
>> win32net.NetUseAdd(None,1,{'remote':r'\\server\share','local':'K:'})
>>
>> is an example (not all that easy to fathom from the docs, but I
>> found it out with a little help from the docs, a little from MSDN,
>> and a little experimentation).
>
> I looked through the MSDN and was not able to find much information on
> how to properly use the NetUseAdd function.  I searched for the
> function and looked through the results but all it showed was some data
> structure, but i was actually looking for a list of all possible
> arguments and which arguments were/were not required.
>
> my problem with the above NetUseAdd example is that I would rather not
> have to specify a device.  In the script I am writing the user may
> choose to map multiple shares so I need to be able to map to the next
> available device:
>
> net use * \\some_server\share_name
>
> instead of:
>
> net use k: \\server\share
>
> Thanks for the help in advance.  Also, if anyone could provide a link
> to good windows api docs for python that would be great.
>
> Cheers,
> --Lucas Machado
> 



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