listing network shares with python

Question

if I explicitly attempt to list the contents of a shared directory on a remote host using python on a windows machine, the operation succeeds, for example, the following sni

Answer 1

For anyone still wondering how to list network shares at the top level on windows, you can use the win32net module:

import win32net
shares, _, _ = win32net.NetShareEnum('remotehost',0)

The integer controls the type of information returned but if you just want a list of the shares then 0 will do.

This works where os.listdir('\\remotehost') fails as '\\remotehost' isn't a real folder although windows can display it like one.