If this file were accessible via any of the protocols supported by Jakarta Commons VFS, you could use VFSLogFilePatternReceiver to provide credentials.
If it's windows authentication, you could embed your credentials in the URI using: smb://myusername:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/log/xxx.log You can also set the 'promptForUserInfo' param on the receiver to true to get a username/password prompt, if you don't want to embed credentials in your receiver config file, and then use: smb://192.168.1.100/log/xxx.log Here are some links: Commons VFS home page: http://commons.apache.org/vfs/ Supported file systems (see the CIFS section): http://commons.apache.org/vfs/filesystems.html VFSLogFilePatternReceiver javadoc: http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/chainsaw/vfs/VFSLogFilePatternReceiver.html Note, Commons VFS has third-party dependencies you'll need to download depending on the file system you're using: http://commons.apache.org/vfs/download.html (in your case, commons logging and jCIFS) Also, follow the directions on this Chainsaw page to use VFS and other receivers which have external dependencies: http://logging.apache.org/chainsaw/distributionnotes.html Scott Deboy COMOTIV SYSTEMS 111 SW Columbia Street Ste. 950 Portland, OR 97201 Telephone: 503.224.7496 Cell: 503.997.1367 Fax: 503.222.0185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comotivsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Aux Board Sent: Thu 8/14/2008 4:24 AM To: Log4J Users List Subject: ChainSaw - accessing a file on a VM Greetings! Sorry to ask a somewhat trivial question, but I am using ChainSaw to display logging information on a VM using LogFilePatternReceiver. I am setting the fileURL in the following manner and it works fine: file://///192.168.1.100/log/xxx.log However, to access this log file I am requested to login to the VM (I work around it by opening the above location using Windows Explorer which prompts me for a logon). Is there a way that I can enter the userid and password from within the above statement? Also if that's possible, what if there is no password for a given userid? How can I specify a null password? Thank you, Doost
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