On Nov 8, 2:23 pm, Sean Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
We actually use win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2 to map a drive. The following recipe lists a slightly different way of doing it as well: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/426742 I don't think you need to make those path strings into raw text if you're using forward slashes, by the way. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list