> From: Brian Burch [mailto:br...@pingtoo.com] > Subject: Re: WebApp access to a LAN share
> Well, for a start a webapp is not normally allowed to access > files outside its own container... Unless you've configured Tomcat to use a security manager, that's simply false; webapps run under the same userid and access rights that all of Tomcat does. Even if you have a security manager, it's fairly trivial to configure it to allow a given webapp to access whatever it needs to. > You can get "outside that container" with a context.xml docbase > element, but I can see that won't work for you because you are > talking as if you have/need most of your webapp within the container. This has nothing to do with what the OP was asking; what you're describing is how to locate a _webapp_ outside of the Tomcat directory structure, not just data the webapp wants to access. > The only way I know to access data outside the container > (under linux) is to define a linux symlink from inside the > container to a directory path outside the container. I think you're confusing client access to resources on the server with webapp access to data files; they are completely independent. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers.
