Turns out that was the issue. I set tomcat to run as a local user and
now it works. Thanks for the help.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Nathan Thatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Steve Ochani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Date sent: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:45:26 -0600
>> From: Nathan Thatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: List remote files in Servlet
>> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
>> Send reply to: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
>>
>>> I am experiencing a little problem with Tomcat 6.0 and I haven't been
>>> able to determine the cause or solution. In a standalone Java
>>> application I can list the files from a remote directory like this:
>>>
>>> File[] list = new File("//192.168.0.1/shared_dir").listFiles();
>>>
>>> When I execute the same code in a servlet running on the same machine
>>> the call to listFiles() always returns null. Is this a security
>>> problem? I am not seeing any errors in the logs and I haven't changed
>>> any of the default security settings for Tomcat of Java. Since I don't
>>> know what the problem is I have had a hard time tracking down a
>>> solution online. Any idea why listFiles() doesn't work in a servlet?
>>>
>>
>> The most likely problem is that Tomcat is running under a user that doesn't
>> have permission
>> to that share.
>>
>>
>> -Steve O.
>>
>>
>>
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> Tomcat is running on a windows machine under the SYSTEM account so I
> assume that it has the permissions. Is there a way to check if this is
> the problem?
>
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