On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Patrick Flaherty <pflah...@rampageinc.com>wrote:
> Update: If I'm login interactively (meaning machine boots and I login and > get my desktop) and that interactive account matches the service login > account > then "net use" from within the service does return all mapped drives. > > I expected as much. It seems as though you cannot get away from the requirement of having to login 'first'...to get everything working as designed/expected in your app. Excuse me, if I missed the business requirement specification (earlier in this conversation), but is the requirement only to get a list of mapped drives for 'your' user login or any enduser that logs into the production server/client/PC/machine? can you add the list of network drives to a database table, and maintain the database table and retrieve the list from that database table via the tomcat-app-running-as-service? if you only need a list of mapped network drives for your user login, can you just maintain a 'file' that has this list on the target/production server, and whenever it changes, can you update the file, and make the topcat-app-running-as-service to always read the file instead of having to call 'net use'? IMHO and FWIW, i would never go with the approach of relying on a windows 'command line' to do this/that for me. yes, in my app, i allow endusers to update files/documents, and the app saves the files/documents to a certain folder on the server, and my app will list those files on a web page, and they can view/download those files from/via the web app... all that is done via java instead of doing a 'cmd.exe dir'. i'm new to java, always wanted to be java developer, and loving what i can do with java. i'm almost getting to the point, where my days of a 'windows user' are done... one day, i hope to migrate to linux for target server instead of windows server. :)
