Re: Connecting a windows network share from Java with a specificied usernameand password

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:19:29 -0400
Message-ID:
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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:

eramitnema@gmail.com 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.

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