Writing a file to a network via the IP address

[LittleWing]

Alright boyz and girls, here one to get you thinking.

The issue
I have a servlet to process a request. This request generates a flat file as output. I want to place the flat file on the users machine in a shared folder. Note, this machine will always be part of the LAN.

The usual excuse
The code i wrote works perfectly on my own machine, writing to my machine, but when executing on the server, trying to write to my machine, it fails.

FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( "\\\\" + request.getRemoteAddr() + "\\download\\contacts.txt"

I also tried using the machine name instread of the IP address but to no avail.

So, what i really want to know is this: does this sort of file naming work? Any suggestions??

 

[LittleWing]

FYI, its not the file naming thats causing the problem. Something with the iPlanet installation runnning on that machine.