What is the recommended way of accessing a network share folder (located in Windows or Linux) in java

Question

All, Forgive me I am not familiar with the Linux. I am trying to read all the files of a network share folder which is located in either Windows or Linux system.

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Answer 1

Remote Mount with FUSE

It's possible to mount a remote filesystem (generally including SMB/CIFS) with FUSE and samba. That might look something like (assuming you have a mountpoint /windows)

# export USER=efrisch
# export WORKGRP=mygrp
# smbmount //10.50.90.18/ /windows –o username=$USER,workgroup=$WORKGRP

Then you could access your directory (transparently) with

new File("/windows/ITS Tool/xml")

Pure Java Solution (with JCIFS)

JCIFS provides SmbFile and that provides listFiles() allowing something like

SmbFile[] files = new SmbFile("smb://10.50.90.18/ITS Tool/xml/").listFiles();

The linked documentation for SmbFile does give the full format as

smb://[[[domain;]username[:password]@]server[:port]/[[share/[dir/]file]]][?param=value[param2=value2[...]]]

and it also notes that all SMB URLs that represent workgroups, servers, shares, or directories require a trailing slash '/'.