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Hello,

I have a problem related to networking. I have a problem accessing
network shared drives from within my java classes.

I used the File object when I was developing. Everything worked fine.
However, I have to deploy to an application server, I need to supply a
user name and password to connect.

I am looking for an easy way to connect to a windows network share
with a user name and password from Java. I started to looking at JNI,
but I was hoping there might be an easier to use wrapper already
written.

I have a shared folder address as \\machine name\folder1, username and
password.

I assume this has something to do with Windows network security?

Can anybody help me?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Amit

kirjoitti:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem related to networking. I have a problem accessing
> network shared drives from within my java classes.

Sure you do since those are not really "drives".

> I used the File object when I was developing. Everything worked fine.
> However, I have to deploy to an application server, I need to supply a
> user name and password to connect.
>
> I am looking for an easy way to connect to a windows network share
> with a user name and password from Java. I started to looking at JNI,
> but I was hoping there might be an easier to use wrapper already
> written.
>

There is nice JCIFS (http://jcifs.samba.org/) package that has SMB
protocol implementation and allows you to work with SMB shares (that
includes Windows shares too).

> I have a shared folder address as \\machine name\folder1, username and
> password.
>
> I assume this has something to do with Windows network security?

Not really. It's just part of SMB protocol.

--

Jani Tiainen

Repeating Jani's fine answer for the benefit of those in clj.help who wouldn't
have seen it due to the multipost.

Jani Tiainen wrote:
> kirjoitti:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem related to networking. I have a problem accessing
>> network shared drives from within my java classes.
>
> Sure you do since those are not really "drives".
>
>> I used the File object when I was developing. Everything worked fine.
>> However, I have to deploy to an application server, I need to supply a
>> user name and password to connect.
>>
>> I am looking for an easy way to connect to a windows network share
>> with a user name and password from Java. I started to looking at JNI,
>> but I was hoping there might be an easier to use wrapper already
>> written.
>>
>
> There is nice JCIFS (http://jcifs.samba.org/) package that has SMB
> protocol implementation and allows you to work with SMB shares (that
> includes Windows shares too).
>
>> I have a shared folder address as \\machine name\folder1, username and
>> password.
>>
>> I assume this has something to do with Windows network security?
>
> Not really. It's just part of SMB protocol.
>