This is slightly off topic as it doesn't involve linux but it involves a
close relative : SAMBA.
I wrote a program that processes a number of files residing in a
directory on an SGI server that was running irix (6.2). Since we don't
have a development environment for irix but do for NT, I thought we
could run the program on NT and access the irix machine via SAMBA -
since SAMBA is running on the machine and the drive in question
DOES appear under NT Explorer.
The directory in question is mapped on NT to the N:\ directory. I can
navigate through this tree with NT without the slightest problem. Yet
when my java program tries to access it (by instantiating a File object
):
File f = new File("N:\\");
if (f.exists())
System.out.println("N:\\ exists");
else
System.out.println("N:\\ does not exist");
if (f.isDirectory())
System out println("N:\\ is a directory");
else
System out println("N:\\ is not a directory");
this is the output:
N:\ exists
N:\ is not a directory
What could be going on here? Why wouldn't the java program see the same
basic attributes of the directory
as NT + Samba?
Anyway, since java is multiplatform, I was able to download the JDK for
irix from SGI and run the program there and it works fine. (Yay, java!)
But this is not the ideal solution and I'd like to understand why I was
having trouble. Can anyone tell me?
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