What is the best way to map windows drives using Python?

Question

What is the best way to map a network share to a windows drive using Python? This share also requires a username and password.

Answer 1

Building off of @Anon's suggestion:

# Drive letter: M # Shared drive path: \\shared\folder # Username: user123 # Password: password import subprocess  # Disconnect anything on M subprocess.call(r'net use m: /del', shell=True)  # Connect to shared drive, use drive letter M subprocess.call(r'net use m: \\shared\folder /user:user123 password', shell=True) 

I prefer this simple approach, especially if all the information is static.

Answer 2

Okay, Here's another method...

This one was after going through win32wnet. Let me know what you think...

def mapDrive(drive, networkPath, user, password, force=0):     print networkPath     if (os.path.exists(drive)):         print drive, " Drive in use, trying to unmap..."         if force:             try:                 win32wnet.WNetCancelConnection2(drive, 1, 1)                 print drive, "successfully unmapped..."             except:                 print drive, "Unmap failed, This might not be a network drive..."                 return -1         else:             print "Non-forcing call. Will not unmap..."             return -1     else:         print drive, " drive is free..."     if (os.path.exists(networkPath)):         print networkPath, " is found..."         print "Trying to map ", networkPath, " on to ", drive, " ....."         try:             win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(win32netcon.RESOURCETYPE_DISK, drive, networkPath, None, user, password)         except:             print "Unexpected error..."             return -1         print "Mapping successful"         return 1     else:         print "Network path unreachable..."         return -1 

And to unmap, just use....

def unmapDrive(drive, force=0):     #Check if the drive is in use     if (os.path.exists(drive)):         print "drive in use, trying to unmap..."         if force == 0:             print "Executing un-forced call..."         try:             win32wnet.WNetCancelConnection2(drive, 1, force)             print drive, "successfully unmapped..."             return 1         except:             print "Unmap failed, try again..."             return -1     else:         print drive, " Drive is already free..."         return -1