[Tutor] getUncPath(mappedDrive)

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
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>Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:22 PM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] getUncPath(mappedDrive)
> 
>On 24/03/2012 20:13, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a function that takes a file path with a mapped drive
>> (z:\blah) and returns the associated UNC path
>> (\\server\share\ding\dang\dong\blah)? I looked in os.path, but it
>> doesn't seem to have this. The link below seems to be a solution
>> (code in the bottom of the page), but I can't install win32com.client
>> in the office :-( Is there any built-in function?
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2244767/python-check-network-map
>
>There's nothing built-in. The easiest function to emulate
>through ctypes is probably WNetGetConnection:
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385453%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
>(this is available from pywin32 via the win32wnet package
>but I assume you can't install that either)
>
>TJG
>_______________________________________________
>Hi Tim,
>
>Thanks! This seems a feasible approach. I have found this Python project that exposes some of the functions of mpr.dll: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wnetconnect/ WNetGetConnection is not among the functions, but the code will help. I have to read up on ctypes.Structure though as I never really understood this.
>
>Cheers,
>Albert-Jan
>
>
>
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