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dynamic homeFolder / Permissions

deas0815 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:24:15 GMT

Hallo everybody,we have a space "a"with a subspace "b". Subspace "b" is the home space of a user.The user does not have any permission on space "a" and we want the home space "b" to be CIFS mountable for the user.However, trying to mount the home space using the users credentials I getThe network na

Re: dynamic homeFolder / Permissions

sacco — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:45:05 GMT

I too would be interested to hear about the Home Folder Fiilesystem,
as I've never managed to get it to work at all.

Re: dynamic homeFolder / Permissions

samuel_penn — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:04:05 GMT

Just to give this thread a prod… has anyone had any luck with this?

If I define a <homeFolder …./> and don't define a rootPath, Alfresco complains of a missing rootPath on startup. If I do define a rootPath, then it uses that rather than the user's home space. I've also tried an empty rootPath which apparently is also invalid.

The definition I'm using in file-system-custom.xml is currently:


<homeFolder name="My Home">
    <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
    <rootPath>/app:company_home/app:user_homes</rootPath>
    <urlFile>
        <filename>__Alfresco.url</filename>
        <webpath>http://${localname}:8080/alfresco/</webpath>
    </urlFile>
    <offlineFiles/>
    <desktopActions>
        <global>
            <path>alfresco/desktop/Alfresco.exe</path>
            <webpath>http://${localname}:8080/alfresco/</webpath>
        </global>
        <action>
            <class>org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.repo.desk.CheckInOutDesktopAction</class>
            <name>CheckInOut</name>
            <filename>__CheckInOut.exe</filename>
        </action>
        <action>
            <class>org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.repo.desk.JavaScriptDesktopAction</class>
            <name>JavaScriptURL</name>
            <filename>__ShowDetails.exe</filename>
            <script>alfresco/desktop/showDetails.js</script>
            <attributes>anyFiles</attributes>
            <preprocess>copyToTarget</preprocess>
        </action>
    </desktopActions>
</homeFolder>
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I'm using 2.2 Enterprise.

Re: dynamic homeFolder / Permissions

chrisrobbo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:13:33 GMT

Just in case this is still topical - I suspect it is because I see no answers to this in the forums but after a bit of code-digging I found the answer . There are 2 things . First the <homeFolder> tag must exist OUTSIDE the <fileSystems> eg .

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems" replace="true">
        <homeFolder name="Home"/>
      <filesystems>
…

And then make sure that the authenticator is set to "alfresco" (I think the default may be "enterprise")

eg.
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystem Security">
      <authenticator type="alfresco">
      </authenticator>
        </config>

Of course it does mean that any enterprise security schemes will not work, but that's the best I can come up with …

Re: dynamic homeFolder / Permissions

klaas — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:34:55 GMT

Another possible solution would be Browse rights (like in Documetum), but Alfresco doesn't have browse. You can create browse rights by http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14597&p=48508

Klaas