networking - listing network shares with python

Question

if I explicitly attempt to list the contents of a shared directory on a remote host using python on a windows machine, the operation succeeds, for example, the following snippet works fine:

os.listdir("\\remotehost\share")

However, if I attempt to list the network drives/directories available on the remote host, python fails, an example of which is shown in the following code snippet:

os.listdir("\\remotehost")

Is anyone aware of why this doesn't work?, any help/workaround is appreciated.

Answer 1

May be pysmb can help