Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.059 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.88; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:help': 0.07; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; 'files.': 0.13; 'found"': 0.16; 'modules,': 0.16; 'ssh': 0.16; 'vpn': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'examples': 0.18; 'trying': 0.21; 'do.': 0.21; 'latter': 0.22; 'machine.': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.23; 'specified': 0.23; "haven't": 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'machine': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'guess': 0.27; 'logging': 0.27; 'question': 0.27; 'probably': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'that.': 0.30; 'file': 0.32; 'accessible': 0.33; 'recommended': 0.33; 'version': 0.34; 'server': 0.35; 'protocol': 0.35; 'pm,': 0.35; 'remote': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'operating': 0.36; 'possible': 0.37; 'does': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'supports': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'possible.': 0.38; 'sure': 0.38; 'system.': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'most': 0.61; 'subject:Need': 0.61; 'header:Reply-To:1': 0.68; 'received:74.208': 0.71; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.72; 'access?': 0.84; 'common,': 0.84; 'received:74.208.4.194': 0.84; 'subject:via': 0.84; 'kid': 0.91 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:59:51 -0400 From: Dave Angel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Coca Cola Kid Subject: Re: Need help connecting via a remote VPN References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:TiGbs5AjEL4Ry8meZwe5me05kRWnJKyY0bbozRwGmvX VGYuBGnTJjWBTC1oeZDIr0KsxytLmFTdAB0uXlFFYMX5DOFjhO TjhM6/zYNIhTxkwkHcv9zAdhdG7bF/qjWAUFYP4tCKRuvkBn7C otXfV4kyxHGemzitmzdZcp/Z7yLkFxvA1w2ldiWWjGJz9mG4cj PUE7JJK4U1SjNoh+FWub9/FJv2MJemnu11qex+Ga284++0g3Kn 39kE57DZgy4rFDzlpi3OXGTyPi9ScOu7wTVMokXTJUB7YB83Dx MhpAsQNUKFznqkKw9inLNJ6d4s1baVY2rLC4+okczfVCO09Lg= = Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@davea.name List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1342663213 news.xs4all.nl 6886 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58414 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:25603 On 07/18/2012 09:36 PM, The Coca Cola Kid wrote: > I need to connect to a site/server that's only accessible after > logging into a remote VPN, then scan a directory for a file pattern > and then copy those files. I know how to do the latter using glob, > and I think I figured out how to connect to the VPN using win32ras and > got a response that said "302 Found" but I'm not sure what to do after > that. Some people recommended using SSH or fabric.api modules, but I > couldn't find any examples that applied to what I'm trying to do. Starting a VPN simply makes it possible for IP packets to get to the specified machine. You still need to match some protocol that the particular remote machine can handle. SSH is probably the most common, but there are lots of other possibilities, some standard and some custom. So the question is what does the remote machine (server) support for file access? glob will work if the server supports mounting the remote partition as a file system. But there are no guarantees that that's possible. You haven't even said what the two operating systems involved are, though I can guess that the local machine is some version of Windows. -- DaveA