My selenium and java based application needs to frequently read/upload a small-size file from a shared folder (\\some-server-ip\SharedfolderName).
When I run the application on multiple client machine (both server and clients can see their IPs) I am prompted to provide username and password to connect to server IP before the application can access the shared folder.
I have shared folder given full control privileges to everyone, anonymous logon group.
I also added \\some-server-ip\SharedfolderName to local security policy's
Network access: Shares that can be accessed anonymously
But, it is not working.
Interestingly, if I enter the username/password manually first time, it works fine in subsequent runs on that particular client. I cannot manually enter username/passwords on all 700+ of the client machines.
I have been trying to get this to work from past three days, without much success.
Any help/suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I have been trying different OS (2008, 2003, Win7) for hosting the shared folder, in a desperate hope to get it to work somehow.
try mapping network drive on your client ?
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Inside Jenkins Jobs & Builds folder, I am creating a text file and writing some content through Java program. As I am part of corporate network, I am inside firewall with many security rules where I have been restricted to write/update the program files directory under C: drive. Although I am administrator in my local machine, however the company policies are still applied which is denying me access to write/delete any files from the Jenkins directory. I see Jenkins is nicely reading/modifying/writing any files/folders without any issues which is believed to the typical behavior of Jenkins's USER.
Question 1: Is there any way I can use this Jenkins's user through my code so I can avail access on to these directories?
Question 2: Are there ways to solve this issue through Java code? (Note: I have tried writing a file with Run as Administration java code as well)
Kindly let me know if I am missing any details,.any help is highly appreciated.
It's about the user who launched the jenkins server, who might have the permissions to access the directories.
You can use the same user for your operations if available.
Question 1: Is there any way I can use this Jenkins's user through my code so I can avail access on to these directories?
Jenkins users - Jenkins server can have its own users and privileges can be set for each users differently. You cannot use these users outside of Jenkins server.
You can use the user who launched the Jenkins server, must be a user at OS level.
Question 2: Are there ways to solve this issue through Java code? (Note: I have tried writing a file with Run as Administration java code as well)
Again, only OS level users can be used and not the Jenkins users(users created inside Jenkins server)
If you want your application to run with same credentials as Jenkins user, then hold Shift+Right Click your application, select "Run as different user", provide Jenkins's user credentials and press OK.
If you are launching your Java application from command line, do the Shift+Right Click on the cmd.exe first, and once again select "Run as different user"
If you want to impersonate a Windows user from within code, then you should really reword your question body and title (and remove Jenkins references as it has nothing to do with this). But even in this case, you need to know the credentials of the user you are trying to impersonate
I have a Java application that sends user score to the mysql table. When the user is done, Java app accesses the .php file on server and the .php server performs a query on the database (inserting score).
I am concerned about the (in)security of this method. I mean, if someone finds out the direct url to the .php on a server, they can produce a lot of mess in the dabase. Can you advise how I could prevent the .php from executing the query other than accessed by the Java app?
edit: The problem is that Java application is NOT run on the server, it's run on the user computer using Java Web Launcher platform. So it's not an applet...
The problem is conceptual. You should never be sure that users can't find out the real address (security by obscurity). You could use SSL, still this is no means against a good guess.
Since the Java program is run on the client side, a .htaccess restricting access to a certain IP is also not an option.
My suggestion is to create a separate user in mysql, grant this user access only to necessary tables and perform the database queries on behalf of this user directly in Java. This way all data is encrypted (see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/ssl-connections.html) and no URL/access point is exposed. Of course it means your MySQL server must be reachable from outside which poses a risk, too. You should have a good root password!
I have a program that needs to read/write files to/from a network computer. Sometimes however the program cannot access the folder on the network computer. Currently, to fix this issue, I go into windows explorer's network section, click the computer, enter my credentials, and then my program is able to read and write to this computer without a problem. Is there a way to allow Java to ask for these credentials or a way to automatically send these credentials using java? I am using Win7 and Win7 embedded on the network computer.
You can use http://jcifs.samba.org/ which is a library for accessing remote CIFS shares. This allows you to set username and password and works on any platform (not just windows) It works without needing to mount a drive.
I am attempting to run a Java application (specifically Minecraft) at my school on a mac computer. I wish to play online on my personal server, however the way the network is set up here the only way to access the internet is to enter network user/pass (The school uses a websense filter). Each student has one, and when you open a browser window a prompt will automatically ask me for it. The same user/pass is used to log into the machine, and some software will simply pick it up and go online without entering it a second time (ex. Safari just connects, Chrome however prompts for the user/pass).
Java applications however seem to be a mixed bag, some will connect, some will not. However none of them prompt me for the user/pass to the network.
So is there any way to force possibly through command line?) a Java application to log into the network?
Or is there possibly some other problem here?
You can set the proxy at the command line. This should help you: How do I set the proxy to be used by the JVM
In case you can't use your proxy directly you might try and install a local proxy such as CNTLM that connects to your network proxy and authenticates using the credentials you provide. The application would then not have to provide credentials. However, you'd have to provide your network credentials to CNTLM and thus should not forget to remove them when you are done.
I'd like to create a service where people can enter external websites, after which the returned source will be modified by my application (for whatever purpose) and then returned to the user.
One would normally redirect all traffic through the server, so that the server is the one accessing the external source. This is because HTML5 and flash sockets cannot access external sources unless the external source has the required policy files (please correct me if this is false). Even if the user wants the client to, it still can't access these external sources if the external source itself does not have such policy file.
My question is: can a Java applet access an external source regardless of it's policy file, if the user allows it to? How is this usually done?
If not, is there anything else I can try? Redirecting all traffic through my server is not an option because of 1. high use of bandwidth and server resources for a free service and 2. a high chance of my server being marked as a spam bot or bandwidth hogger.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Tom
If choice of technology is not a problem you can use a Java Web start application.
Your application will be launched from a web page (if that is what you want)
After user-confirmation your application can do everything (similar to native apps)
I have actually done this with a Java web start application that used web services from servers other than the one it was launched from.