I’ve a production env and test env. Production has win2k3+tomcat 6.0+ and network drive mapped to a drive letter for easy access (z:\app instead of \symba\files\app). My test env has windows xp (all the software is same including the source code for servlet) and test also has the same drive letter mapping to the network drive.
Tomcat is running with the same user id in both the systems and am able to access the file via windows explorer in the test m/c and production m/c.
Now the servlet in the windows xp m/c (test m/c) throws a file not found exception if try to access an existing file (reachable via windows explorer). The servlet in production is same as in test env and production servlet happily gives the file when i request it and does not throw any error what so ever.
I’ve see some posts that using drive letter is not a good idea and should use UNC paths instead and i’ve not tried this yet. I want to know the reason why test servlet fails to get file whereas production servlet works fine.
Thank you very much for your time and help
Bo
Are you running the application server as a service? Drive letter assignments are reliable only if you use interactive programs not services.
A couple of years ago, I tried to resolve a quite identical problem but, at last, I gave up and I used JCIFS to access the files.