title: Maven "could not resolve dependencies" and "failed to read artifact descriptor" error
body: <p>I am using Maven2 eclipse plugin to download dependencies for my project. Although if I compare my repository folder with that of other members in my team using the same Maven repositories and settings.xml, I do not have a lot of jars.</p>
  
  <p>Maven is somehow not able to download them. I copied the settings.xml from a co-worker still it doesnt work for me.</p>
  
  <p>I checked but I am not behind a proxy. One more thing, I am logged into a personal profile in my computer and my repository is a part of the profile. Can this be an issue? </p>
  
  <p>I get the following errors everytime I try building:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Failed to execute goal on project ComputerAccess: Could not resolve dependencies for project housing:ComputerAccess:war:2.1.4:
  Failed to collect dependencies for [struts:struts:jar:1.2.7 (compile),
  org.apache.portals.bridges:portals-bridges-struts:jar:1.2.7-1.0
  (compile), org.hibernate:hibernate:jar:3.2.6.ga (provided),
  housing:common:jar:0.6 (compile), javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.3
  (provided), log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.15 (compile),
  commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.0.4 (provided),
  commons-logging:commons-logging-api:jar:1.0.4 (provided),
  com.lowagie:itext:jar:2.1.5 (compile),
  org.hibernate:hibernate-annotations:jar:3.3.1.GA (provided),
  org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:jar:3.3.2.GA (provided),
  org.hibernate:ejb3-persistence:jar:1.0.1.GA (provided),
  commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:3.2 (provided),
  javax.transaction:jta:jar:1.1 (provided), housing:ufldap:jar:1.0
  (compile), commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:jar:1.0 (provided),
  net.sf.ehcache:ehcache:jar:1.2.3 (provided),
  org.jboss.portal.common:common-common:jar:1.2.2 (provided),
  c3p0:c3p0:jar:0.9.1 (provided), jboss:jboss-ejb3x:jar:4.2.3.GA
  (provided), net.sf.jt400:jt400-full:jar:6.0 (provided),
  javax.portlet:portlet-api:jar:1.0 (provided),
  housing:housing-login-module:jar:0.8.1 (provided),
  javax.mail:mail:jar:1.4.1 (compile),
  org.apache.commons:commons-email:jar:1.1 (compile),
  housing:housing-persistence:jar:1.0 (compile),
  housing:ComputerAccessPersistence:jar:1.1-dev (compile),
  housing:ufdirectory:jar:1.0-dev (compile)]: Failed to read artifact
  descriptor for apache-tomcat:catalina:jar:5.5.12: Could not transfer
  artifact apache-tomcat:catalina:pom:5.5.12 from/to
  repository.jboss.org (http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/): Access
  denied to
  http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/apache-tomcat/catalina/5.5.12/catalina-5.5.12.pom.
  Error code 403, Forbidden -    [Help 1]
      [ERROR]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The folder "maven2" in the path <a href="http://repository.jboss.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://repository.jboss.org/</a> does not exist, but still it's somehow going to this path; this is not mentioned in my settings.xml too.</p>