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Defining different shared file systems

omegerard — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:40:50 GMT

Objective: I want to define several (shared) file systems from the same Alfresco tree so as to make mapping a network drive more easy (and so as to make the distance to the files of interest shorter).Attempted solution: I edited "file-servers.xml".Basically, I added the following lines: <fil

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:47:01 GMT

Hi,

You could try using the rootPath value of '/app:company_home/cm:Test' for now but we are looking at adding a new configuration value for the relative path to make it easier to configure.

The home folder config is pretty much just <homeFolder name="Home"/> within the same configuration block as other <filesystem> entries.

When you connect to the CIFS server the user that you connect as is used to create a dynamic filesystem that is visible to your session only and mapped to your own space.

Cheers

Gary

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:14:13 GMT

Hi,

I've just added a new filesystem configuration value to allow a relative path to be set :-

  <filesystem name="Alfresco">
    <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
    <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
    <relativePath>\Garys space</relativePath>
  </filesystem>
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The path can use either forward or back slashes, and can be multiple levels.

Cheers

Gary

Re: Defining different shared file systems

omegerard — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:06:19 GMT

Hi Gary

I've just added a new filesystem configuration value

I presume this will be available in 1.2. Right?

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:13:40 GMT

Hi,

It's in the 1.2 release and also the nightly builds.

Cheers

Gary

Re: Defining different shared file systems

omegerard — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:39:30 GMT

Hi Gary

I gave this feature a new try.

I works, though not as expected.

When I defined two or more filesystems, only the last one appears to work. At least it is the only one that can be "browsed". And when I try to map any of the other filesystems, I'm requested to provide username and password over and over again (on a WXP platform).

This cannot be the expected behaviour, can it?

Regards

Ludo

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:50:35 GMT

Hi Ludo,

Could you email me your file-servers.xml file.

Thanks

Gary

Re: Defining different shared file systems

andrepra — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:45:15 GMT

I'm interested to the multiple share functionality. I don't understand is you have solved the problem?

My file-server is:


   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems">
      <filesystem name="FS1">
         <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
         <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
         <relativePath>/FS1/Test</relativePath>
      </filesystem>
      <filesystem name="FS2">
         <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
         <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
         <relativePath>/FS2/Test2</relativePath>
      </filesystem>
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Opening CIFS server i saw FS2 with the content of FS1.
Thanks
Andrew

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:43 GMT

Hi,

This has been fixed in the latest version of the code. This required a change to the XML format to add a top-level <filesystems> block which then contains one or more <filesystem> definitions.

The change was required to allow the file-servers.xml configuration to be overridden using a file-servers-custom.xml in the alfresco/extension folder.

The way the configuration override works was causing only the last filesystem to be defined to be loaded.

Cheers

Gary

Re: Defining different shared file systems

andrepra — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:38:41 GMT

With "last version of code" did you mean version 1.2.1 or 1.3? Trying adding filesystems tag to di 1.2.1 seems doesn't work.

thanks
andrew

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:45:29 GMT

Hi,

The fix is in the 1.3 code. The documentation has been updated - http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration. There is now an outer <fileystems> tag.

You can also override the filesystems by creating an alfresco/extension/file-servers-custom.xml file. This saves having to edit the main configuration file.

Cheers

Gary

Re: Defining different shared file systems

nullman — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:13:22 GMT

The documentation has been updated - http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration. There is now an outer <fileystems> tag.

All I see on the linked page is "(There is currently no text in this page)"

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:24:46 GMT

Hi,

The full stop on the end seems to have messed it up, had me confused for a while.

Try this link :-

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration

Cheers

Gary

Re: Defining different shared file systems

nullman — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:15:47 GMT

Hi,

The full stop on the end seems to have messed it up, had me confused for a while.

Ah, thanks. I didn't notice the period at the end of the link. ops:

Re: Defining different shared file systems

omegerard — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:17:23 GMT

Hi,

I've just been trying again to map multiple shares from a single store in the 1.3.0 Community version.

In addition to the standard Alfresco filesystem, I defined the following two filesystems:


      <filesystem name="Processors">
         <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
         <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
         <relativePath>/Desics/Pipelines/Processors</relativePath>
      </filesystem>

      <filesystem name="Mapping">
         <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
         <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
         <relativePath>/Desics/Pipelines/Mapping</relativePath>
      </filesystem>
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Result:

1. The Mapping Filesystem can be mapped without any problems
2. The two other filesystems (Alfresco and Processors) cannot be mapped. When I tried it, Windows (XP) complained about "More data is available". On a linux system I noticed the same behaviour. The error message there reads:

15625: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in tree connect.)

Re: Defining different shared file systems

gary_spencer — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:06:02 GMT

Hi,

I've just tried adding Processors and Mapping shares to the filesystems list and it's working ok.

The 'More data is available' usually indicates a low level protocol error, in this case probably in the DCE/RPC request that gets the share list.

I'll try again with the community version when I get a chance, I'm currently running with the latest enterprise code, but there haven't been any changes in the DCE/RPC code for a long time so that would be the same anyway.

Cheers

Gary