Is there an obvious way to do this in python?

[H J van Rooyen]

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:


| On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:20:59 +0200, "H J van Rooyen"
| <mail at microcorp.co.za> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
|
| >
| > no such luck - reality will probably be Linux for server, and a horrible mix
of
| > windoze machines on the client side - from 95 through 98 and 2000 to XP...
will
| > have to get SAMBA running at least - and it could be tricky with some of the
| > older hardware/software around - but that is another fight, that I would
have to
| > solve anyway.
| >
| Well, other than the security differences -- which may not apply
| when the clients are mounting a share, only when the define a shareable
| partition -- I think the Windows side may be similar all the way
| through.
|
| > This is more the kind of thing I had in mind - but I was not thinking in
terms
| > of having the redirecting done by the OS and network file sharing - stupid I
| > suppose...
| >
|
| Not really -- if one first is thinking in terms of "internet", which
| means unsecured global operations, instead of an internal-only, behind
| firewall, system.

*grin* you are being too kind - I was at no stage thinking internet...

|
| > | add the "share" to the pythonpath (hence you want a uniform system
| > | configuration so each machine mounts the share on the same name).
| > |
| >
| > I will have to think of a solution to this *shudders*  - config files,
maybe...
| >
| I think Windows can be set to "reconnect on start-up", but it may be
| better just to add a BAT file to the client machines' system start-up
| directory containing the command line that mounts such a share.
|
|

This is a good idea - thanks

- Hendrik