Access and read files on a Windows server from a Java application installed on Unix Box

[GauravS Srivastava]

Hi All,
I need some pointers (and some code if you have) on how to access and read some files (log files, text files) residing on a windows machine from a Java application installed on Unix Box.
Please guide what are the option and which one to use as a best practice?

TIA,
Gaurav

[Paul Clapham]

If the two machines are linked by a Windows network then you can use jCIFS to access files on any machine in that network. Security and permissions will apply in the normal way, of course. Or you could perhaps use Unix commands to map a Windows folder into a local name (sorry I don't know the details of how to do that) before accessing the files.

"Best practice" is a meaningless phrase without a context in which to apply it.

[Rob Spoor]

Paul Clapham wrote:Or you could perhaps use Unix commands to map a Windows folder into a local name (sorry I don't know the details of how to do that) before accessing the files.

If the SMB client libraries are installed you can mount SMB (Windows) shares. From an old /etc/fstab file of mine:

//ICEMAN/iceman   /mnt/iceman/iceman      smbfs noauto,noexec,username=ice    0 0 

I can't remember how the password was handled though; I don't use SMB shares with Unix / Linux anymore.