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

If you want to map the current login user, i think subprocess solve your problem. But is you want to control different mappings for different users, from a single master account. You could do this from the register of windows

The idea is to load the profile of a given user.

import win32api
import win32security
import win32profile
import win32netcon
import win32net
import win32netcon
import win32con

il = 'G'
m = '\\\\192.168.1.16\\my_share_folder'
usu = 'my_user'
cla = 'passwd'

#login the user
hUser = win32security.LogonUser(
       usu,
       None,
       cla,
       win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
       win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT 
    )

#load the profile
hReg = win32profile.LoadUserProfile (
             hUser,  
             {"UserName" : usu}
            )

#alter the regedit entries of usu
win32api.RegCreateKey(hReg, "Network")
hkey = win32api.RegOpenKey(hReg, "Network\\", 0, win32con.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
win32api.RegCreateKey(hkey, il)
hkey = win32api.RegOpenKey(hReg, "Network\\%s" % il, 0, win32con.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
win32api.RegSetValueEx(hkey, "ConnectionType", 0, win32con.REG_DWORD, 1)
win32api.RegSetValueEx(hkey, "DeferFlags", 0, win32con.REG_DWORD, 4)
win32api.RegSetValueEx(hkey, "ProviderName", 0, win32con.REG_SZ, "Red de Microsoft Windows")
win32api.RegSetValueEx(hkey, "ProviderType", 0, win32con.REG_DWORD, 131072)
win32api.RegSetValueEx(hkey, "RemotePath", 0, win32con.REG_SZ, m)
win32api.RegSetValueEx(hkey, "UserName", 0, win32con.REG_DWORD, 0)