topic Re: Open Network Folder - does it work? in Alfresco Archive

Open Network Folder - does it work?

signal — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:06:44 GMT

I like that there is a feature of an icon next to each space, where you can click on it and its suppose to allow you to open a CIFS connection to the space. The URL tag it gives is file://///servernamea/spacenameThat does not seem to work in vista or osx. I can goto smb://servername/alfresco just

Re: Open Network Folder - does it work?

josw — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:19:49 GMT

got the same problem.
Maybe the two extra "/" are needed to avoid interpreting the following "/" ?
My guess is that it somehow was forgotten during software engeneering process.
Whatever, I wouldn't be surprised if there is nothing we can do about it, except for wating for bug fixing.

Re: Open Network Folder - does it work?

mikeh — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:28:10 GMT

The format is correct.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767731(VS.85).aspx

My guess is that it somehow was forgotten during software engeneering process.
Whatever, I wouldn't be surprised if there is nothing we can do about it, except for wating for bug fixing.

Hey! You're right… please make sure the Mozilla guys hurry up with the fix!
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=it&comments_parentId=186680&forumId=1

Mike

Re: Open Network Folder - does it work?

josw — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:32:08 GMT

Hi Mike,
Thx for the quick response!
Looking forward to it. 😛

Re: Open Network Folder - does it work?

signal — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:14:53 GMT

Ok, let me clarify.

This is with Internet Explorer under IE.

Simply putting file://172.16.1.51 works fine for me.
putting in file://TREBLEA does not.

I think the path being given by Alfresco is likely fine, but for whatever reason the box is not broadcasting its hostname information, and I am not sure why. It does not show up in network neighborhood. The workgroup is set fine. If I do an nmblookup it does not show up, unless I unicast the nmblookup directly to the box like:

nmblookup -U 172.16.1.51 \* -S

so it seems to have to do with the browsing/notification parts of it giving out its hostname to the broadcast address.