Python Cookbook 2Nd Edition Jun 1002005 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Recipe 10.14. Creating a Share on Windows

Credit: John Nielsen

Problem

You
want to share a folder of your Windows PC on a LAN.

Solution

PyWin32's win32net module makes
this task very easy:

import win32net
import win32netcon
shinfo={  }
shinfo['netname'] = 'python test'
shinfo['type'] = win32netcon.STYPE_DISKTREE
shinfo['remark'] = 'data files'
shinfo['permissions'] = 0
shinfo['max_uses'] = -1
shinfo['current_uses'] = 0
shinfo['path'] = 'c:\\my_data'
shinfo['passwd'] = ''
server = 'servername'
win32net.NetShareAdd(server, 2, shinfo)

Discussion

While the task of sharing a folder is indeed fairly easy to
accomplish, finding the information on how you do so
isn't. All I could find in the
win32net documentation was that you needed to pass
a dictionary holding the share's data
"in the format of SHARE_INFO_*." I
finally managed to integrate this tidbit with the details from the
Windows SDK (http://msdn.microsoft.com) and produce the
information in this recipe. One detail that took me some effort to
discover is that the constants you need to use as the value for the
'type' enTRy are "hidden
away" in the win32netcon module.

See Also

PyWin32 docs at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/;
Microsoft's MSDN site, http://msdn.microsoft.com.