URGENT! Changing IE PAC Settings with Python

[James Matthews]

HI forwarded it to the Python Win32 list

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> K-Dawg wrote:
>
>> Thanks for any response.  I am in a crisis where one of our networking
>> guys
>> moved where our PAC file is housed.  There was a group policy set in
>> Active
>> Directory that set the PAC file location in Internet Explorer to the new
>> location.
>>
>> However, we have 100 remote centers that have about 3 to 4 machines that
>> are
>> not on AD (from before an AD migration).  These machines did not receive
>> the
>> update.
>>
>> Is there a way I can write a python script to run from my machine to jump
>> out to a list
>>
>
>
> More of a Windows question, really, and depends on the configuration
> of network, security etc. Certainly you can use any of the usual
> Windows techniques (UNCs, WMI, DCOM etc.) to invoke things on those remote
> machines, assuming you have enough network and credentials to get there.
>
> Not clear what your level of expertise is, either at the Windows
> or at the Python level, so apols. if suggesting the obvious here.
> If you already know what technique you're going to use to push
> your file out (say, a copy to a remote unc) then getting Python to
> read a list of machines from a file and doing the same to each one
> is child's play:
>
> import shutil
> for machine in open ("machines.txt"):
>  shutil.copyfile ("local.pac", r"\\%s\c$\somewhere\thing.pac" % machine)
>
> If you need to set up credentials for that connection first, you
> might want to use the win32net module from the pywin32 extensions
> to establish a mapped drive or at least a NULL session with known
> credentials.
>
> As a possibility the other way round, if you're able to WMI into
> the machines, you could run a command on them to pull the file
> in, rather than pushing. Obviously, you've still got to establish
> credentials.
>
> I'll stop there, because I might be missing the target altogether.
> You'll certainly get help here, but you might want to post to
> the python-win32 list which is a bit more specialised.
>
> TJG
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