"Marc Dubrowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Mark, thanks for your answer. > > I'm afraid I have not been clear enough in the the description of what I > want to do: i want symbolic links, also called junctions by microsoft. > > For the moment, the management of properties on files and folders is > disastrous: some users can more less do what they want about this. This > creates lots of problems and confusion. For example, if someone moves from > a department to another one, he should no longer be authorized to read/write > the documents in the folder of the former department. As the permissions > are granted to users instead of groups, It is far than trivial to find out > on which folders the authorizations should be removed/changed > > We need to change this and teach the users how to work with more discipline, > but not too much: they don't all realize really what a server is. (It is not > unusual for them to copy a file locally on different PCs, and still thinking > they are working on the same document) > > My idea is as follow: every user will have 2 network drive: P: (for public > data) and U: (for users data). > In the U: drive, there will be the 'my document' folder. Physically, it will > be on one drive of the file server. With quotas on. > Beside the 'my document' folder, there will be as many folders as groups the > user is member of. > Practically, these folders will be on another drive of the server: one per > group. What I want is to create a symbolic link on the server: from > h:\group_folder to u:\%username%\group_folder for all the groups the user is > member of. > > The advantage is that the h: drive on the server would not be visible on the > network. > > Windows shell links, as far as I have understood, creates link files > (*.lnk). It wouldn't work and would oblige me to share the h: drive's > content, which I don not want. > > A batch file would use linkd.exe from the w2k3 resource kit, or > junction.exefrom sysinternals. > > But I guess it would be better for my scripts (create_user, modify_users, > delete_users) if they could just call the win32 api instead of using > os.popen(). > > Is there a way to accomplish this ? >
You can use win32file.DeviceIoControl to create junctions (also known as reparse points). See this post for some code to do so: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/939a0d8d54200693/a2002a03f59afbea?lnk=gst&q=DeviceIoControl&rnum=5#a2002a03f59afbea However, from the description it sounds like DFS might suit your needs better. Roger _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
