Hi All, I apologize in advance if this sounds like a stupid question but I am really no expert at all in network things, and I may be looking in the wrong direction altogether.
At work we have a bunch of Linux servers, and we can connect to them with our Windows PCs over a network. Now, let's assume we only have one Linux server, let's call it SERVER. Everyone of us, on our Windows PC, can map this server as a network drive choosing whatever Windows "drive letter" he wants. For example, I could map SERVER to be "Y:/", my colleague might call it "Z:/" and so on. The problem arises in one of my little applications, which allows the user to choose a file living in SERVER and do some calculations with it; then, this file name gets saved in a common database (common in the sense that it is shared between Windows users, ourselves). Now, I choose this file myself, the FileDialog (a window representing a file selector dialog) will return something like this (let's ignore the back/forward slashes, this is not an issue): Y:/Folder/FileName.txt If my colleague does it, he will get: Z:/Folder/FileName.txt Even if I am able to work out the server name using the Windows drive letter (and I was able to do it, now I don't remember anymore how to do it), what I get is: For me: //SERVER/gavana/Folder/FileName.txt Colleague: //SERVER/Colleague/Folder/FileName.txt So, no matter what I do, the file name stored in the database is user- dependent and not universal and common to all of us. Am I missing something fundamental? I appreciate any suggestion, even a Windows-only solution (i.e., based on PyWin32) would be perfect. Thank you in advance for your help. Andrea. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
