[Python] How can I access Windows share under Linux by UNC path?

First, let's ensure that Windows share is accessible:

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/test


Let's try mount, but it's fail:

$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.10/work /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.10/work,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)

In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so.


But if provide dummy user/pass (i.e. point exactly 'USERNAME' and 'PASSWD'), mount success:

$ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWD //192.168.0.10/work /mnt/test
$ ls /mnt/test/*.txt
/mnt/test/1.txt
$ umount test


Now lets try python:

$ python -V
Python 3.5.2+
$ python
>>> import os
>>> os.listdir(r'//192.168.0.10/work')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//192.168.0.10/work'


I'm trying four slashes, backslashes, combine it, with or without r, unicode escaping (bytes(path, "utf-8").decode("unicode_escape")), all this fail with No such file or directory. May be reason of this fail is user/pass, but I have no imagine how add it to UNC.

PS. Also I try pysmb library, it's work fine without user/pass. But I don't want using additional lib if it possible.

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