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How to map a network drive to Alfresco

tmichals — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:43:05 GMT

Hello I am new to alfresco. I am trying to map a network drive to Alfresco. 1st off, in order to use CIFS, does NetBIOS have to be installed as a protocal under my network card? ( right now it is not). I am installing on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 and using the Comunity edition (Alfresco

Re: How to map a network drive to Alfresco

mrogers — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:11:11 GMT

Alfresco configuration 101 : Don't change anything under WEB-INF, your configuration changes go into alfresco-global.properties.

And you say you are using CIFS and then use ftp!

By default ftp is a tcp based protocol will be on port 21. You can change it to 1121 by setting the ftp.port property and ftp.enabled=true in your alfresco.global.properties.

Re: How to map a network drive to Alfresco

tmichals — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:17:34 GMT

I Was trying to use CIFS but not making any progress, so I switched to trying to use ftp. Now I will try modiying the right file.
Thank You for your prompt respose.
Tom

Re: How to map a network drive to Alfresco

tmichals — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:00:42 GMT

It works!

I go to “map network folders”, paste the following in and check “reconnect at logon” and I am able to copy and paste a document into the dir and see it in Alfresco Explorer

ftp://tmichals:tmichals@ACS-6E25FE26398:1121/Alfresco/User%20Homes/tmichals_space/

Thanks

Tom