On Aug 12, 8:48 am, "Prof. William Battersea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Suppose I have a Vista machine called VISTA and an XP machine called > XP in a workgroup named WORKGROUP. Physically they're connected to a > router and I can see lists of public and shared files on each of them. > How do I address these for IO? > > A search suggested that the form open(r"\\server\folder\folder"), but > I tried many combinations guessing what it wants for that path in my > case (r"\\WORKGROUP\VISTA", "\\VISTA\PUBLIC", etc), and none have > worked so far. > > Thanks!
Does the remote folder require authentication? Maybe you could map a network drive and then access files using (z:/VISTA-FOLDER/ ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
