check your tomcat logs for access to samba.conf its possible you might have to use sudo to access the samba configuration if thats the case start tomcat with sudo https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/C/configuring-samba.html
Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:23:14 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Tomcat vs. Samba > > I'm running the Hudson continuous integration > server<https://hudson.dev.java.net/>webapp on Tomcat 6.0 on a Windows > machine. To perform a build, I have Hudson > invoking an Ant build script. At one point, the build script needs to upload > a file to a Linux machine. I can think of two ways to accomplish this: > > - FTP > - filesystem paths via Samba > > I've taken the latter approach, and I've set up a Samba server on that Linux > machine. ("Why not use FTP?", you ask. Well, soon enough I'll give that a > try.) > > I wrote a very simple Ant target to capture this problem. Instead of an * > upload*, it *downloads *a file from the Linux server. There are three > scenarios in which I've tried running this Ant target: > > #1 First, I invoke it manually without first mapping a network drive. I get > a message: > "Warning: Could not find file \\REPOSITORIES\... to copy." > > My Samba log shows this: > check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [www-data] -> [www-data] > FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER > ... > guest user (from session setup) not permitted to access this share (ivy) > > #2 Next, I map a network drive and enter a username and password matching > credentials I've input using the Samba smbpasswd utility. Now when I invoke > Ant manually to do the copy, it works. > > My Samba log shows this (where "philadelphia" is the name of the Windows > machine running Hudson): > ... > check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [mgitman] -> [mgitman] -> > [mgitman] succeeded > ... > philadelphia (::ffff:192.168.0.105) connect to service ivy initially as > user mgitman (uid=1000, gid=1000) (pid 6967) > ... > mgitman opened file ... read=Yes write=No (numopen=1) > ... > mgitman closed file ... (numopen=0) NT_STATUS_OK > > #3 Finally, I launch a build on Hudson to trigger the same Ant target. I get > the same error message as I did manually before mapping the network drive: > Warning: Could not find file \\REPOSITORIES\... to copy. > > My Samba log shows this: > guest user (from session setup) not permitted to access this share (ivy) > > At first I thought this was a problem with Hudson specifying the wrong > username. By default, Hudson sets the system property user.name to HUDSON$ and > the environment variable USERNAME to HUDSON$. But even when I manually > specify the username, I get the same problem, and as you can see from the > log output above, no username is getting sent anyway. > > Then I thought this might have something to do with Tomcat running under a > more restrictive security policy. So I tried replacing the catalina.policy > file in the Tomcat conf directory with the java.policy from the JDK, of > course renaming the replacement to catalina.policy. But no, same problem. > > Then I tried configuring the Hudson webapp to use basic authentication and > have the username and password be the same as one of those recognized by > Samba. That didn't work either. > > So basically, the credentials I input when mapping the network drive get > picked up when invoking Ant by hand (scenario #2), but they don't get picked > up when it is Hudson running on Tomcat that is invoking Ant (scenario #3). > > Well, I already have those directories exposed over HTTP. You might have > noticed the www-data user from Apache 2 showing up in the first log. So it > wouldn't be a big deal to add the FTP. Still, it's odd that Samba should > work manually but not with Hudson on Tomcat. I'm left asking, what's the > difference? _________________________________________________________________ Send e-mail anywhere. No map, no compass. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_anywhere_122008
