I have a script that searches through a protected directory and opens file explorer to a selected location. The problem is that it only works after the user has already logged into the directory.
Example of what sort of thing the code is doing below:
subfolder = input("give a subfolder")
if os.path.isdir("\\\\directory\\path\\"):
#run some stuff
os.startfile("\\\\directory\\path\\" + subfolder)
else:
print('error message- unable to connect to drive. Please log in')
If the user has opened "\\directory\path" on their own and entered their username/password into the windows security prompt, then my code works. If they haven't, I can't find the directory path.
Is there a way to open to the windows security prompt from Python? Ideally user puts in username and password and then can continue to the directory.
If you install win32, you can connect to network resources with a prompted username and password. It's not a simple solution (like an os call), but you can use the wnet_connect method from this example to pass a username/password in your except call.
It boils down to:
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(0, None, full_path, None, username, password)