Hello,

i got an exception when i try to read a password protected "shared Workbook" in 
Excel 2007.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The supplied 
POIFSFileSystem does not contain a BIFF8 'Workbook' entry. Is it really an 
excel file?
       at 
org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.getWorkbookDirEntryName(HSSFWorkbook.java:229)
       at 
org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:270)
       at 
org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:250)
       at 
org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:194)
       at 
org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:329)
       at 
org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:310)
       at 
org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:64)



wb = WorkbookFactory.create(new FileInputStream(avListPath));

when I remove the sharing it works well

thanks in advance and kind regards

Christoph Rid

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