Opening Directories on anothe File System

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The resource you're trying to access is a samba share. First you have to mount the resource or use a library to access direct to samba shares. I guess new servers don't support the old samba protocol. Maybe this module works: https://github.com/jborean93/smbprotocol

Otherwise you can use subprocess to run the net command to mount a samba share.

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


def mount_share(path, target, persistent=False):
    cmd = ['net', 'use', target, path]
    if persistent:
        cmd.append('/PERSISTENT:YES')
    proc = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    retval = proc.wait()
    if retval != 0:
        raise ValueError(proc.stderr.read())

Then you can access with Python the mounted share, just like with normal files.
I check in the function the return value of the net command.
Maybe you want some information if there were an error and why.