[Java] Reading a file on a network drive

I'm attempting to read a file I created on a network drive. The problem is that in Eclipse, I specified my path as:

path = "\\\\sever\\folder\\folder\\file.txt"

I get the following output:

java.io.IOException: Failed to open file:////server/folder/folder/file.txt. Error message: The parameter is incorrect.

The code is use to open the file is as follows:

public void OpenFile() {
  try {
  if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()){
   desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
  }

   desktop.open(new File(path));

  } catch (IOException e) {
   System.out.println("File could not be opened");
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
 }

ReadTextFromFile rtff = new ReadTextFromFile(path);

rtff.OpenFile();