Thread: Finder password dialog with Java

That's very useful when it comes to port my program to the Windows platform as it's awt does not support the feature. Thank you very much!

Quote: Originally Posted by Transporteur I didn't know that. I am not a subscribed developer yet (free though, but that doesn't really count), so it's pretty hard to get proper information, or do I miss a source on the Apple developers site? It's something I remember from way back when people wanted to get the OSX L&F from Java on the Mac on other platforms and it became clear that Sun couldn't do that as...

Google for: authorization mac os x java Top hit: http://www.amug.org/~glguerin/sw/#authkit

Authorization Services are normally the "right answer", but in this case the OP wants to get a username and password for a remote system. Escalating to a privileged local account isn't going to buy access to these remote resources. I'm unfamiliar with java gui programming, but i can only assume that there is a form of input that obscures what is being typed with bullets, etc. I would just get the password in there,...

You can use your own GUI to get a username, password, and (optionally) the domain. You can then pass this information to a Mac utility to mount the drive. Assuming that you are trying to mount a SMB drive (i.e. a Windows mount), you can try something like this: Code: // Mount the drive String[] cmd1 = {"/sbin/mount_smbfs", "//domain;username:password@server/share", "/path/to/dir"}; Process...