JFileChooser and network share

[Andreas Pax Lück]

Hi friends!

I need to display network shares in a JFileChooser. It's possible to show the network shares of the concerning host via the network button. But I'd also like to display them hardcoded by invokation of:

  fileChooser.setCurrentDirectory(new File("\\\\hostname");  

The JFileChooser doesn't do nothing in this case. If I do specify the explicit share ressource it works:

  fileChooser.setCurrentDirectory(new File("\\\\hostname\\temp");  

I don't know the shared folders. So, I want to show the list of all shared folders of the concerning host. Is this impossible?

Best regards


PAX

[Rob Spoor]

I've tried with my own machine, and if I create a File around an actual share and call its exists() method, it returns true. If I create a File around the network host only (e.g. new File("\\\\hostname")), exists() returns false. As such, java.io.File is not the means to retrieving these. That also means that JFileChooser can't help you out, since it uses java.io.File in the background.

[Andreas Pax Lück]

ok, that's really bad.

thanks for your help.

best regards

PAX

[Maneesh Godbole]

If you are using Windoze, you might find this thread useful
http://www.coderanch.com/t/463406/Swing-AWT-SWT-JFace/java/display-contents-My-Network-places
Some more info here http://www.infocellar.com/win98/networkneighborhood-nethood.htm

[Andreas Pax Lück]

these are interesting information. does the nethood location also have a common caption? i realized that its name isn't "NetHood" on systems with a different language than english.