what is the user running the jenkins process ? you need to put the .m2 folder in the home folder of that user.
Richard On 2012-05-13, at 16:53, Dave Hicks <dh...@i-hicks.org> wrote: > I'm sure I must be missing something simple. I cannot get my Jenkins job to > authenticate with my Nexus server to download artifacts. I've got Jenkins > installed on a Linux server. I edited the /var/lib/jenkins/.m2/settings.xml > file and added the appropriate <servers> information. My only guess is that > this must not be the right location to configure that information? It's just > not working. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Dave >