[python-win32] Find IP address for a UNC path

[Dave Angel]

I'll try PING when I next get to the location.

Steven James wrote:
> I think the bigger issue is being passed over...why write a program to do
> what RDP should already be able to do? RDP should work by machine name. If
> it does not, then DNS probably is not set up correctly.
>
>   
I don't know why RDP won't work by name;  I assumed it was because it's 
a workgroup setup, not a domain.  But your comment about DNS makes more 
sense.

There is no administrator for this system;  I have been trying to fake 
it (It's a non-profit, and I'm a volunteer), mostly by keeping things 
simple.  My only admin experience has been with a home network, though 
I've been involved in computer software for  40 years, and had computers 
at home for 30.  I don't know how to set up DNS on an XPPro system.  
This machine is a (file) server only in the sense that it's the only one 
with shares defined.  And it normally has no keyboard or monitor.  So 
RDP is the only easy way in.

> Are you, by any chance, using OpenDNS as your DNS servers?
>
> Does your router support DHCP assignment by MAC address (for static-like IPs
> with DHCP)? If so, you can always use the same IP instead of looking it up.
>   

Thanks, that would be perfect.  I guess it's got to be possible, since 
they have a shared printer that has a fixed IP.  But the printer setup 
software did it automatically.  The router is a plain-vanilla Linksys 
unit, but I'll be happy to get the password for it, and walk through its 
menus to see if I can make a static IP.

Thanks all of you.
DaveA
> Other than that, I second the "socket.gethostbyname" suggestion.
>
> SJ
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Gerdus van Zyl <gerdusvanzyl at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> I would say try socket.gethostbyname;
>> http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.gethostbyname
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dahlstrom,
>> Roger<rdahlstrom at directedge.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Ping it and get the address.
>>>
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>>> Subject: [python-win32] Find IP address for a UNC path
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to figure out the IP address for a Windows XP file
>>> server (on a local subnet, not across the Internet), based on a
>>> successfully connected share.
>>>
>>> So I know the UNC name of the share, for example
>>>    \\server\sharename\...
>>>
>>> (which was enabled by a NET USE to some other share on the same server)
>>>
>>> I know the IP address will be of the form  192.168.1.nnn   and it's on
>>> the same router as my user's machine.  The local machines are running XP
>>> and Vista (and OS-X), on a workgroup, not a domain.  And the server uses
>>> DHCP (I think it's called), so the IP address is not fixed over time.
>>>
>>> The user of this utility will be then doing a Remote Desktop to the
>>> server, if that helps.  We know he has permission, since he was able to
>>> successfully  NET USE to the server.  But Remote Desktop doesn't seem to
>>> permit him to use the server name, only the IP address.
>>>
>>> I've successfully written such a utility, using subprocess to launch
>>> IPCONFIG.EXE on the server, but I need to be able to do it from the
>>> user's machine, when the server is physically inaccessible.
>>>
>>> Suggestions anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks, DaveA
>>>
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