os.path.exists() and Samba shares

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:33:45 -0300, BDZ <bdezonia at wisc.edu> escribió:
> On Jul 30, 4:41 pm, Loïc Domaigné <loic.domai... at googlemail.com>
> wrote:

>> > Hello. I have written a Python 3.1 script running on Windows that uses
>> > os.path.exists() to connect to network shares. If the various network
>> > shares require different user account and password combos than the
>> > account the script is running under the routine returns false. I need
>> > something like os.samba.path.exists(username,password,path). Does
>> > anyone have a suggestion on how I can accomplish what I need to do in
>> > Python?
>>
>> Could the Python Samba module PySamba be interesting for  
>> you?http://sourceforge.net/projects/pysamba/
>
> Unfortunately, although it has the calls I'd want, pysamba appears to
> be *nix only. I need something that will work under Windows. Is there
> a set of Python Windows functions (official or contributed) that might
> do what I need? (I'm new to Python)

SAMBA is a Linux implementation of the SMB protocol, natively supported on
Windows. You may use the pywin32 package (available on sourceforge.net) to
call the WNetAddConnection2 Windows function:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385413(VS.85).aspx

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Gabriel Genellina