Re: [python-win32] Find IP address for a UNC path

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:09:27 -0700 

I'll try PING when I next get to the location.

Steven James wrote:

I think the bigger issue is being passed over...why write a program to do
what RDP should already be able to do? RDP should work by machine name. If
it does not, then DNS probably is not set up correctly.
I don't know why RDP won't work by name; I assumed it was because it's a workgroup setup, not a domain. But your comment about DNS makes more sense.
There is no administrator for this system; I have been trying to fake it (It's a non-profit, and I'm a volunteer), mostly by keeping things simple. My only admin experience has been with a home network, though I've been involved in computer software for 40 years, and had computers at home for 30. I don't know how to set up DNS on an XPPro system. This machine is a (file) server only in the sense that it's the only one with shares defined. And it normally has no keyboard or monitor. So RDP is the only easy way in. 


Are you, by any chance, using OpenDNS as your DNS servers?

Does your router support DHCP assignment by MAC address (for static-like IPs
with DHCP)? If so, you can always use the same IP instead of looking it up.
Thanks, that would be perfect. I guess it's got to be possible, since they have a shared printer that has a fixed IP. But the printer setup software did it automatically. The router is a plain-vanilla Linksys unit, but I'll be happy to get the password for it, and walk through its menus to see if I can make a static IP. 

Thanks all of you.
DaveA

Other than that, I second the "socket.gethostbyname" suggestion.

SJ


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Gerdus van Zyl <gerdusvan...@gmail.com>wrote:


I would say try socket.gethostbyname;
http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.gethostbyname


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dahlstrom,
Roger<rdahlst...@directedge.com> wrote:

Ping it and get the address.

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Subject: [python-win32] Find IP address for a UNC path

I'd like to be able to figure out the IP address for a Windows XP file
server (on a local subnet, not across the Internet), based on a
successfully connected share.

So I know the UNC name of the share, for example
   \\server\sharename\...

(which was enabled by a NET USE to some other share on the same server)

I know the IP address will be of the form  192.168.1.nnn   and it's on
the same router as my user's machine.  The local machines are running XP
and Vista (and OS-X), on a workgroup, not a domain.  And the server uses
DHCP (I think it's called), so the IP address is not fixed over time.

The user of this utility will be then doing a Remote Desktop to the
server, if that helps.  We know he has permission, since he was able to
successfully  NET USE to the server.  But Remote Desktop doesn't seem to
permit him to use the server name, only the IP address.

I've successfully written such a utility, using subprocess to launch
IPCONFIG.EXE on the server, but I need to be able to do it from the
user's machine, when the server is physically inaccessible.

Suggestions anyone?

Thanks, DaveA


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