Create a directory and save file in a network location from Servlet

Question

I have deployed a webApplication in a Tomcat Server (v8), which runs a service in a Windows 2008 R2 PC. In this webApplication, the user uses a form to upload files (photos). What I want is to store these photos in a NAS disk in my network (both server and NAS disk is under the same network).

I read and followed this relevant answer. I tried firstly to save the photos in the local disk of my server C:and it worked!

public void saveFiles(List<Part> fileParts,String targetId) { 
        String pathRoot = "C:\\Share\\photos\\;
        String date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());

        try {
            int counter = 1;
            for (Part filePart : fileParts) {

                String destPath = pathRoot + "\\" + targetId;    
                Boolean flag = new File(destPath).mkdirs();                   
                System.err.println("mkdirs flag = " + flag);

                File file = new File(destPath, targetId + " " + date + "-" + counter + ".jpg");

                try (InputStream input = filePart.getInputStream()) {
                    Files.copy(input, file.toPath());
                }

                counter++;
            }
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

However, if I change the location path to NAS disk

String pathRoot = "\\\\192.168.0.7\\Share\\photos\\";

then I get the following error:

java.nio.file.FileSystemException: \\192.168.0.7\Share\photos\machines\4 20180704110827-1.jpg: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(Unknown Source)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(Unknown Source)
    at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newOutputStream(Unknown Source)
    at java.nio.file.Files.newOutputStream(Unknown Source)
    at java.nio.file.Files.copy(Unknown Source)
    at com.yaylitizis.production.Actions.saveFiles(Actions.java:1797)
    at com.yaylitizis.production.Actions.processRequest(Actions.java:510)
    at com.yaylitizis.production.Actions.doPost(Actions.java:1893)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:648)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:291)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at com.yaylitizis.production.FilterUTF8.doFilter(FilterUTF8.java:27)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:142)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:518)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1091)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:673)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1526)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1482)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

In order to avoid the above error, how I can add the credentials of the network disk?

Edit 1

I mapped the network disk from Windows and the folder is accessible. However, the error still exists..

Leviand · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-19 13:44:35Z

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You can achieve this in 2 ways:

1) Since the "login" in network drive is done by windows, go on your server (where tomcat is installed and running), access the shared folder \\192.168.0.7\Share\photos, and when it asks for credentials, put them and save with the checkbox remember credentials on Windows. You can then edit or remove from Manage your network password on control panel. Look here for more info

2) You have to use external libraries for Java. There's an helpful answer about it here

Hope it helps

answered Jul 19, 2018 at 13:44

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jingx · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-19 13:53:59Z

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You can use Runtime.exec to execute net use \\192.168.0.7\Share\photos your-password /user:your-domain\your-user-name /persistent:yes /savecred. Only need to do it once during the initialization of your Web application.

answered Jul 19, 2018 at 13:53

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yaylitzis Over a year ago

It doesn't work.. Now I get an error java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException

jingx Over a year ago

Well, where is the error thrown? Did you get the path right? NoSuchFile is different from authentication related errors...

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