Access File on Windows URN from Open SUSE Java Process

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Hi All,

This question is not strictly restricted to SUSE, I’m sure its general Linux type question, but I’m trying to do it on SUSE so here goes.

I would like to open a file for IO using a windows type URN ie \<server>&lt;share>\filename.ext from a java process running in an app server on SUSE (Enterprise as it happens).

I was rather hoping that a correctly configured samba client would allow it to happen, but that is either not the case or, I haven’t found the correct configuration yet.

Has anyone any experience of doing this themselves?

I know I can just mount the windows disk and access that way, but I was hoping to not need that.

oh the process works perfectly well on a windows app server - the same appserver as it happens just running on a windows machine instead of SUSE. I can open the file and read it into memory etc.

Cheers

Stewart

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Fundamentals for accessing a remote resource…

  • Select a transport. Can be CIFS (ie SAMBA), FTP, HTTP, NFS, etc. Unless your app has specific requirements, you can choose any.
  • Configure server-side.
  • Configure client-side. Depending on the transport, various paths (URN) can be configured. Often, *NIX paths are configured with forward slashes and are case sensitive, whereas MSWindows paths are typically backslashes and case insensitive.

I don’t know what your client app is, so can’t speculate what would be best.

TSU