Reading contents shared on Windows machine from Unix Box with a Java Program

Question

I have shared contents on windows machine say \\someip\\somedirectory and now I want to write a program in Java that runs on Unix Box and reads contents of the shared folder.

File file=new File(directoryPath);
if(file.isDirectory()) returns false.

Therefore I am failing on the first step itself. Please suggest how can I do that.

Answer 1

You should use return instead of returns :

File file=new File(directoryPath);
if(file.isDirectory()) return false;