On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Patrick Flaherty <pflah...@rampageinc.com>wrote:
> > On Mar 25, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Howard W. Smith, Jr. wrote: > > 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. :) >> > > This is what I see. If my service logs in as "service-user" and I login > normally to my desktop as "dt-user". > I call "net use" from my service and get an empty list. Now I logout as > "dt-user"and login as "service-user" and I mapped > 4 drives and only 2 of the drives are mapped persisted (i.e. reconnect at > logon). I logout as "service-user" and > now I have my app call "net use" programatically and it returns the 2 > drives that were mapped with persistence. > Conclusion: Whatever drives are mapped persisted when logged in as the > user the service logs in as, then your > app can call "net use" and get those drives returned from "net use" even > if your logged in as "dt-user" OR nobody > is logged in at all !!!! > > Maybe someone can confirm my finding, but this is what I see. > > Your findings are all good; reading and digesting and wanting to respond/participate since I'm definitely a developer using/deploying-app to Windows/tomcat7 . :) If you could provide a WAR (little test app), I would be more than willing to give this a shot on my Windows Server 2008 64-bit (standard/Vista) development server and maybe even try it on my Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit (R2 = Windows 7, from what I understand), but I'd have to setup a Windows user/environment for this...to mimic what you're doing. Now, onto the other responses. :) > Thanks again > Pat > > > > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tomcat.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
