How to access shared folder if it asks username password

[rajamohammed]

Can you please help me on this I can access one shared folder (folder is in another mahine) from my machine using java program. But From another server machine while accessing the same folder it asks username & password. How can I access it using program. Please reply as soon as possible.

Thanks

[chaarmann]

Can you please help me on this I can access one shared folder (folder is in another mahine) from my machine using java program. But From another server machine while accessing the same folder it asks username & password. How can I access it using program. Please reply as soon as possible.

Thanks

Enable FTP-access to this folder. FTP is the best protocol for file access.
Then simply use "ftp://username:password@servername/filepath/filename" as URL in your function that opens the file.

[rajamohammed]

Enable FTP-access to this folder. FTP is the best protocol for file access.
Then simply use "ftp://username:password@servername/filepath/filename" as URL in your function that opens the file.

I used this URL. But it is taking as ftp:\username:password@servername\filepath\filenam e. And giving filenot found exception. saying incorrect path of folder/filename. please reply.

[chaarmann]

I used this URL. But it is taking as ftp:\username:password@servername\filepath\filenam e. And giving filenot found exception. saying incorrect path of folder/filename. please reply.

If it is taken as that, then you have used the wrong constructor.
read the JDK API about class File, you will see these 2 posbilities:
1.) File(String pathname)
Creates a new File instance by converting the given pathname string into an abstract pathname.

2.) File(URI uri)
Creates a new File instance by converting the given file: URI into an abstract pathname.

you should use the second one, of course, as I wrote "URL" before, and URI is part of URL.

here is an explanation of the difference, quoted from the JDK 1.3 API:
For Microsoft Windows platforms, the prefix of a pathname that contains a drive specifier consists of the drive letter followed by ":" and possibly followed by "\" if the pathname is absolute. The prefix of a UNC pathname is "\\"; the hostname and the share name are the first two names in the name sequence. A relative pathname that does not specify a drive has no prefix.