[jcifs] SmbFile.listFiles with encoded Password

[Michael B Allen]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:04:04 +0000 (UTC)
Doug Ward <doug_ward at comcast.net> wrote:

> When I create a SmbFile with regular text username and password, the call 
> SmbFile.listFiles() works fine, but when I have a password with encoded 
> characters I get the SmbException "Network 
> Error: //username:password at server/share
> 
> My code looks something like this
> 
> {
>   SmbFile[] subDirs = null;
>   String uName = "user";
>   String password = "pass%word";
>   String path = "server/share/";
> 
> 
>   SmbFile f = new SmbFile("smb://" + URLEncoder.encode(uname) + ":" +   
> URLEncoder.encode(password) + "@" + path);
> 
>   subDirs = f.listFiles();  // Exception thrown here

You have to do:

  NtlmPasswordAuthentication auth = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication( dom,
uname, password );
  SmbFile f = new SmbFile( url, auth );
  f.listFiles();

Actually you should do that regardless. Using credentials in the URL is
a big no-no.

Mike


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