Write a file to a Windows remote location from Unix

Question

My application is deployed on a Unix machine and trying to write a file to remote Windows location. Instead of writing the file to the remote location, app is writing it to the Server's location ( Unix ) where the app is deployed to.

Any idea what could be going wrong? I have tried to put the location in the following ways:

1. FileOutputStream fs = new FileOutputStream(new File("\\\\windows_server_name\\anyDir\\filename.xml"))

2. FileOutputStream fs = new FileOutputStream(new File("\\windows_server_name\\anyDir\\filename.xml"))

It always creates the file at app server's location with the name of the remote location's address. eg

" \\\\windows_server_name\\anyDir\\filename.xml ". It creates a file like this.

Answer 1

To connect and write to your server you need a URL to connect to over ftp something like

URL url = new URL ("ftp://username:password@windows_server_name/anyDir/filename.xml");
URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
OutputStream os = urlc.getOutputStream();

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Answer 2

I have resolved this issue. Actually the remote Windows location had to be mapped (mounted) to AIX server. And I had to just use the mapped location instead of directly accessing the remote Windows machine.

I did not make any code changes and was able to write the file in the same way as shown above in the question.

Thanks for your inputs all.