Determine network path of shared drive on Windows in Python

Question

Consider a local drive on a Windows machine that is shared over a network.

The drive is mapped to D:\ locally and it is shared by the local machine over the network with the name data. Therefore, the network path for this drive would be \\computer-name\data.

Is it possible to determine the name of the shared network path programatically in Python given the drive letter D from the host machine?

Expected behavior would be:

drive_letter = "D"
get_network_path(drive_letter)
>>> \\computer-name\data

The only additional constraint is that this should work without admin permissions.

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '19 at 13:53

I was able to resolve the full network path by using the subprocess module with net share, which will list all shared drives.

import platform
import subprocess


def get_network_path(drive_letter: str):
    s = subprocess.check_output(['net', 'share']).decode()  # get shared drives
    for row in s.split("\n")[4:]:  # check each row after formatting
        split = row.split()
        if len(split) == 2:  # only check non-default shared drives
            if split[1] == '{}:\\'.format(drive_letter):
                return r"\\{}\{}".format(platform.node(), split[0])

print(get_network_path("D"))   
>>> \\computer-name\data

Determine network path of shared drive on Windows in Python

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