Anyone had success using NetUseAdd() on shares accessed through a Windows 2003 DFS root?

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Nov 8, 2:23 pm, Sean Peterson <sean... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had success using NetUseAdd() on shares that were replica links on a Windows 2003 DFS root? In my code, I'm getting error:
>
> pywintypes.error: (67, 'NetUseAdd', 'The network name cannot be found.')
>
> This is my scenario:
>
> Win2003 Server hosting DFS root #NTS-03
> \\NTS-03.central.purdue.lcl\MI
>
> Win2003 Server hosting file share
> \\itifs03.itap.purdue.edu\itea_zonedirs\MI
>
> <code>
>
> import win32net
>
> # this works --
> win32net.NetUseAdd(None,1,{'remote':r'//itifs03.itap.purdue.edu/itea_zonedirs/MI/TEAMDIRS/DCS
> Zone','local':'W:'})
>
> # this doesn't work --
> win32net.NetUseAdd(None,1,{'remote':r'//NTS-03.central.purdue.lcl/MI/TEAMDIRS/DCS
> Zone','local':'W:'})
>
> </code>
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> -Sean.

I'm not seeing any typos in your code...but it looks like you're
trying to map two different locations to the same drive letter. Maybe
that's throwing an error in and of itself?