trouble with os.listdir on a network drive

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For Windows i use cmder,which have ssh build in.
So ssh user@host will connect to external host.
When have access then use standard tool like cd navigate and ls to list files.

Also cmder has a lot of tool build in,ssh, git, scp, cat, find...ect.
Copy from server folder(foo) to C:\ drive tmp folder.

scp -r [email protected]:/path/to/foo /c/tmp

both of you mentioned samba and paramiko which are for Linux if i am not mistaken.

Paramiko works on Windows,there are more specialized tool like fabric, ansible.

Fabric is a high level Python (2.7, 3.4+) library designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH,
yielding useful Python objects in return.