No answers but some things you could try: There have been some reports of problems with file paths being specified in different ways - UNC versus something else perhaps.
Use SimpleFSLockFactory rather than the default native class. Try a recent version of lucene unless you already are. -- Ian. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Spencer Tickner <spencertick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > I've been building lucene index to a MS Windows Server 2003 test > environment with no problem. When attempting to build the same index > onto a Windows Server 2008 machine I get the following error: > > Cannot create directory: \\whatever\index > at > org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory.acquireTestLock(NativeFSLockFactory.java:75) > at > org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory.makeLock(NativeFSLockFactory.java:142) > at org.apache.lucene.store.Directory.makeLock(Directory.java:146) > at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:1108) > at qp.builder.LibraryBuilder.buildNewLibrary(LibraryBuilder.java:167) > > I found some info via google where people were having a similar issue > now and then, but this is always. Anyone had a similar issue? > > Thanks, > > Spencer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
