Re: File reading across network (windows)

On Aug 12, 8:48 am, "Prof. William Battersea"
<williambatter...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

Suppose I have a Vista machine called VISTA and an XP machine called
XP in a workgroup named WORKGROUP. Physically they're connected to a
router and I can see lists of public and shared files on each of them.
How do I address these for IO?

A search suggested that the form open(r"\\server\folder\folder"), but
I tried many combinations guessing what it wants for that path in my
case (r"\\WORKGROUP\VISTA", "\\VISTA\PUBLIC", etc), and none have
worked so far.

Thanks!

Does the remote folder require authentication? Maybe you could map a
network drive and then access files using (z:/VISTA-FOLDER/ )
.

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