I have a servlet that does a direct read from a mapped drive in
Windows. It works fine in tomcat as long as I use a drive on the local
machine. However, I need to access a mapped drive on a different
machine. When I run the program, I get a FileNotFound error in JAVA and
(access denied) next
Daniel L. Gross wrote:
> I have a servlet that does a direct read from a mapped drive in
> Windows. It works fine in tomcat as long as I use a drive on the local
> machine. However, I need to access a mapped drive on a different
> machine. When I run the program, I get a FileNotFound error in JA
> From: Daniel L. Gross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mapped File Access Problems in Servlets
>
> However, I need to access a mapped drive on a different
> machine. When I run the program, I get a FileNotFound error
> in JAVA and (access denied) next to it.
Are you r
I am not running in a domain, my servers are running in a workgroup
only, and the machine tomcat 5.5 is running on is logged into an
administrator account. It appears that it sees the mapped drives
because if I try to access a file that is not available, I get the
proper JAVA message. When I
I just tried changing the login configuration to log onto the
administrator account, and I still get access denied. Any thoughts???
Thanks, Dan Gross, ATLC
Mark Thomas wrote:
Daniel L. Gross wrote:
I have a servlet that does a direct read from a mapped drive in
Windows. It works fine i
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Daniel,
Daniel L. Gross wrote:
> How do I change the configuration in the tomcat service to allow it to
> see other computers?
You don't change the service configuration (unless you run Tomcat as
some other user -- which isn't a bad idea). Instead, y
Thanks for all your help, I found out the problem. It was the service
privilege running under the local machine. The default tomcat icon at
the bottom of the screen that allows you to configure and start/stop
tomcat would not let me change the user it ran under. However, I was
able to change
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Daniel,
Daniel L. Gross wrote:
> I was
> able to change the user to Administrator
This is basically the same as running as root on a UNIX system: it
works, but nobody can really recommend it since you're giving your app
server full access to everythi