[python-win32] Extracting share permissions

[Brad Tilley]

Quoting Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>:

> It looks as though the SHARE_INFO_502 supports this via the
> sh502_security_descriptor attribute.  Presumably this can be used with
> NetShareGetInfo and NetShareSetInfo.
>
> Mark.

Mark, would you write an example of this using SHARE_INFO_502? I'm not an
experienced win32 programmer... if that's not obvious already :)

Here is what I've done so far:

This code gets the shares and writes them into a list that is then pickled...
this is my share info that I back up each week:

# Get a list of shares that *WE* have defined
# Excluding the builtin Windows Shares.
my_shares = []
all_shares = win32net.NetShareEnum(server, 0)
for share in all_shares[0]:
    #print share
    for name, value in share.iteritems():
        if '$' not in value:
            my_shares.append(value)

# Dump the my_shares list into a pickle.
fd = file('shares.bin', 'wb')
cPickle.dump(my_shares, fd)
fd.close()

This code recreates the shares based on the pickled share list... I only use
this when reinstalling the server:

# Extract the my_shares list from the pickle and recreate shares.
fd = file('shares.bin', 'rb')
my_shares = cPickle.load(fd)
fd.close()

my_share_info = []
for share in my_shares:
    my_share_info.append(win32net.NetShareGetInfo(server, share, 2))
for share_info in my_share_info:
    try:
        win32net.NetShareAdd(server, 2, share_info)
    except Exception, e:
        print e

This restores everything except share permissions... would you show me how to
incorporate the SHARE_INFO_502 into this? If so, it'd be a big help.

Thanks,
Brad


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> > [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Brad Tilley
> > Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2006 9:11 AM
> > To: python-win32 at python.org
> > Subject: [python-win32] Extracting share permissions
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've googled around a bit but I can't find an easy,
> > straight-forward way of
> > doing this in Python. Here's my situation: I want to be able to
> > extract 'share
> > permissions' (not file system permissions) from shares and then
> > reapply them.
> > We have a large file server that occasionally has to be rebuilt.
> > I'm able to
> > recreate all of the share information _except_ 'share
> > permissions' any tips on
> > doing this will be greatly appreciated!!!
> >
> > I can provide more details if needed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
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