[jcifs] Re: Getting SmbAuthException

[Michael B Allen]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:27:17 +0000 (UTC)
Swati <swati_roighare at persistent.co.in> wrote:

> > > currently disabled.
> > 
> > You need to specify credentials. The default credentials are "GUEST"
> > with no password which on most machines is a disabled account.
> 
> Thanks Mike.
> 
> But still i am not able to run the List example.
> 
> Now i am passing the credentials  with the command, but i cant use the default 
> since by default that account is disabled. Can you please tell me the way by 
> which i can enable that account?
> 
> Even I tried to pass the username and password of the machine which i am trying 
> to access but then i am getting the NullPointer exception as follws:-
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.getType(SmbFile.java:1110)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.doNetEnum(SmbFile.java:1589)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.list(SmbFile.java:1542)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.list(SmbFile.java:1436)
>         at List.main(List.java:12)

This should not happen. What exact URL did you use to get this exception?

Mike