Connection Refused exception upon reading/parsing a shortcut file present in network drive

[Piyush Mattoo]

SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
     try {
        File f = new File("\\\\bady\\SShare\\mart.xml");
        System.out.println(f.exists());   // Returns False
        System.out.println(f.length());   // Returns 0

        Document document = builder.build(f);  //IOException at this point
        Element root = document.getRootElement();
        Element paragraph = root.getChild("mart_element");
        String content = paragraph.getText();
        System.out.println("content = " + content);
        } catch (JDOMException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Here mart.xml is a shortcut present in C:\Param\Bin on a windows box. I get the following IOException:

Exception in thread "main" java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:524)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:474)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.openServer(NetworkClient.java:118)
at sun.net.ftp.FtpClient.openServer(FtpClient.java:488)
at sun.net.ftp.FtpClient.openServer(FtpClient.java:475)
at sun.net.www.protocol.ftp.FtpURLConnection.connect(FtpURLConnection.java:270)
at sun.net.www.protocol.ftp.FtpURLConnection.getInputStream(FtpURLConnection.java:352)
at JDOMElementTextContent.parseXml(JDOMElementTextContent.java:36)
at JDOMElementTextContent.main(JDOMElementTextContent.java:47)
I tried to open Stream from URL using file: protocol but URLConnection.getInputStream throws the same connection refused exception.

Any recommendations would be appreciated?

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

The Path provided in the File constructor is not correct. You can either specify an absolute path or specify a relative path.

Update: I assumed that the program and the file which it tries to access are on the same machine.

Wrong interpretation, didn't notice the Network Drive in the Subject Please dont consider this.

[Rob Spoor]

Do you have access to that share and file? Does the user running the JVM have access (in case that isn't you)?