Manipulating files in Production?

Hello,

I need to create a script with which i would be able to access and manipulate files from my desktop to production servers. Right now I access those files by connecting to production thrue DameWare. How would you write this script to login thrue Dameware? installing python in production is out of the question. Any help would be great.

Thanks
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One question - what is dameware?

To quote from the website "http://www.dameware.com/"

Microsoft Windows NT administration utilities incorporating a centralized interface for remote management of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Servers and Workstations.

Thanks for any help.
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I have never heard of dameware, so the following is pure speculation.

If you normally interact with dameware through a command-line program then you should be able to call the client using the system function, or a pipe. This will work fine if you just need to run a single command and capture the output.

However if you need to be more interactive then you need something like expect. Pexpect (http://pexpect.sourceforge.net) is a pure Python port of expect, but the Windows version needs to be run under cygwin. There are other Python versions of expect that may work better on native Windows, so do a search on google.

If dameware has a C API then you could wrap it with SWIG to create a dameware python module, if this has not been done already. I did a cursory google search for "dameware and python" but it did not throw up any obvious candidates.

If there is only a GUI client to dameware then you are on your own. It is possible to control a Windows GUI with Python, but it is not for the faint hearted.

Dave - The Developers' Coach

Thank you for replies. I guess it's not that simple.

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That line kinda through me . You want a solusion in Python but dont want to install it? Little lost sorry .

Edit: looked at the pexpect page and it looks very intersting! If it works then it should be able to do some if not all of what you want (i got the impression this is a GUI were talking about). Anyway looks fun

Good luck with the project anyway,

Mark.

There's no way I would try to use Python to control Dameware. Maybe, just maybe, to trigger a connection for me to use.
Editing files through Dameware with Python?

Can you mount the folders on the server as a local drive?


Then just work with Python as if they were local files on the t: drive?