Ciao Peter, that message usually pops up if there are problems in extracting the canonica form of a path. This happens when the drive is mapped and the process does not have enough privileges to reach it, like when the geoserver runs as a process on windows.
Regards, Simone Giannecchini ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Founder Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini http://twitter.com/simogeo ------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Turvey, Peter G (UK) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the reply Andrea, >> >> I do actually use forward slashes when I create the new Store. >> i.e. Connection Parameters file:data/TIF/filename.tif >> >> But when I look in the log file I get that line I mentioned before which has >> backslashes in it. >> >> INFO [store.panel] - Could not convert file:data\TIF\filename.tif into >> canonical form >> java.io.IOEXCEPTION : The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax >> is incorrect >> >> >> I have used this file before with an earlier version of geoserver 1.7.3 and >> it was fine so I don't think there's anything wrong with the .tif file >> itself. > > I've just tried 2.1.2 on a XP VM I have around, setting a tiff file in > the data directory > with a path similar to yours, and then go pick it up with the file > chooser, which > resulted in a path like: > file:data/TIF/DEM_Vulcano_Lipari_Salina4326.tiff > > And then published it... without problems. > > Not sure, maybe it is specific to your enviroment. > Is the data dir on some shared disk for example? > > Cheers > Andrea > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Ing. Andrea Aime > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Tech lead > > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584 962313 > fax: +39 0584 962313 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
