File reading across network (windows)

[Prof. William Battersea]

Hello,

Suppose I have a Vista machine called VISTA and an XP machine called
XP in a workgroup named WORKGROUP. Physically they're connected to a
router and I can see lists of public and shared files on each of them.
How do I address these for IO?

A search suggested that the form open(r"\\server\folder\folder"), but
I tried many combinations guessing what it wants for that path in my
case (r"\\WORKGROUP\VISTA", "\\VISTA\PUBLIC", etc), and none have
worked so far.

Thanks!

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hello,

Suppose I have a Vista machine called VISTA and an XP machine called
XP in a workgroup named WORKGROUP. Physically they're connected to a
router and I can see lists of public and shared files on each of them.
How do I address these for IO?

A search suggested that the form open(r"\\server\folder\folder"), but
I tried many combinations guessing what it wants for that path in my
case (r"\\WORKGROUP\VISTA", "\\VISTA\PUBLIC", etc), and none have
worked so far.

You need to create network shares in windows first. Once these are
established, *all* programs using file-IO - including python - can
access files.

Diez

 

[binaryjesus]

Hello,

Suppose I have a Vista machine called VISTA and an XP machine called
XP in a workgroup named WORKGROUP. Physically they're connected to a
router and I can see lists of public and shared files on each of them.
How do I address these for IO?

A search suggested that the form open(r"\\server\folder\folder"), but
I tried many combinations guessing what it wants for that path in my
case (r"\\WORKGROUP\VISTA", "\\VISTA\PUBLIC", etc), and none have
worked so far.

Thanks!

Does the remote folder require authentication? Maybe you could map a
network drive and then access files using (z:/VISTA-FOLDER/ )

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

You need to create network shares in windows first. Once these are

It isn't absolutely essential to create a network share first: most
windows apis, including those used by Python, will be very happy with a
UNC path:

<snip/>

You still need to create a share on the serving machine. The UNC-path is
just for accessing it without *mounting* it on a local machine under some
drive-letter. I should have worded clearer what I meant, though.

You are of course right that actually mounting the drives makes it much
easier to deal with them regarding authentication.

Diez