Read Remote File with Access Permissions

Question

I am trying to read a file on a network server (from a Windows XP machine), which I would normally access by asking for \\\\ServerName\\dirPath\\ in the run dia

Answer 1

Impersonation using the win32 modules might work for you. See this ActiveState Recipe

I have used the Technet Runas command line tool manually before. In a pinch you could use that with a subprocess call to copy the file to a local temp file.

Answer 2

You say it's a Samba share - have a look at PySmbClient. That way, you can do something like this:

client = smbclient.SambaClient(server="servername", share="sharename",
    username="foo", password="bar", domain="baz")
f = smb.open('/path/to/file')
data = f.read()
f.close()

Alernatives are available, such as PySamba.