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listdir on IP Adress - OEMS1 - Jul-18-2020
Hallo Guys,
I need to get content of a windows "networkshare".
It is and will not be added as networkdrive with a letter.
In Windows Explorer I can resolve the content via "\\192.168.5.1"
--> dir1
--> dir2
With Python I am trying
import os
d=os.listdir('\\\\192.168.5.1')
and differnt version of slashes
--> In the best case I get: FileNotFoundError: [WinError 67]
any help
RE: listdir on IP Adress - Larz60+ - Jul-19-2020
that ip address links to several domains see: https://whois.domaintools.com/192.168.5.1
it seems to connect to none of them, thus your File Not Found error
RE: listdir on IP Adress - DeaD_EyE - Jul-19-2020
@Larz60+ it's a private IP in his home network or somewhere else behind a router.
The easy short solution is, to mount your samba share to a drive letter.
Then you can use
open(), os.listdir and other operations on file system.You can't use
open or other file system operations like os.listdir on a samba share.You can access with a client the samba share: https://pypi.org/project/smbprotocol/
RE: listdir on IP Adress - bowlofred - Jul-19-2020
For whatever reason, although you can list the contents of the shares, you don't seem to be able to list the shares themselves. On my windows 10 machine:
>>> len(os.listdir('//10.0.0.10')) # fails to list the shares by IP
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 67] The network name cannot be found: '//10.0.0.10'
>>> len(os.listdir('//10.0.0.10/USB_Storage')) # listing contents of a share works fine
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