That's because Tomcat or your servlet container is running as a different user as you are within your own desktop. I ran into the same problem before and you basically have to get the user/account that the tomcat process runs under to be mapped to drive "F".
-----Original Message----- From: Ashish Kulkarni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] reading pdf file from mapped network drive in servlet Hi I am running tomcat on my windows 2000 machine and i have mapped a network drive to it I am trying to read a pdf file from the network drive, and it is giving me access denied error my servlet code is File file = new File("F:\\chart\\test.pdf"); System.out.println(file.exists()); (output is false) How do i read this file, this code works fine in standalone program, but fails in servlet Ashish __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
