Servlet, Tomcat 3.3, IIS virtual directory access denied

Question

Hello people,
I've set up Tomcat to run as a service with a domain log on usr/pswd. IIS works fine redirecting servlet requests to Tomcat via ISAPI redirector. All on Windows 2000 Server.
The problem:
The java application creates and reads files from a location which corresponds to an IIS virtual directory and is also a local directory with respect to the Tomcat and IIS installation. The application is denied access to this directory when submitting a network path (\\server/drive/directory/) where to store and read files, but is happy when a local path is given instead (E:/) Why? The domain user should have complete access to this. Is it Tomcat, IIS, or java restrictions?
I appreciate any suggestion on this
Thanks

Answer 1

The problem would be with the logon that you have Tomcat running under. Writing to a file accessed by network share (\\server\share) is not a problem under Java as long as the logon has appropriate privileges. If you are writing to something of the form \\server\c$\directory, as it sounds like you might be, the logon may need administrator access to the box (in order to see \\server\c$).