If your computer is connected to the Internet or a local area network (LAN), then it's time to talk to the other computers on the network. In a typical home, office, or campus LAN, you will find that many different types of computers are connected to the network. Some computers act as the servers for specific services, such as a file server, a print server, a user authentication management server, and so on. In this chapter, we will explore how the computers in a network can interact with each other and how they can access a few services through the Python scripts. The following task list will give you an overview of the topics that will be covered in this chapter:

This chapter requires quite a few third-party packages, such as paramiko, pysnmp, and so on...