topic Re: How to 'link' a folder on the hosting system to a share in Alfresco Archive

How to 'link' a folder on the hosting system to a share

szgabor — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:46:57 GMT

Hi,We are running Alfresco as a classical document management and sharing application. So users permissions etc already well established so I am trying to extend this to a specific task.This is a linux server running the following version:Installed Schema 1002Installed Version 3.0.0 (Stable 152

Re: How to 'link' a folder on the hosting system to a share

jottley — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:14:37 GMT

It is not possible. Your likely to get better results by have the files written into alfresco using one of the file servier interfaces (FTP, CIFS, NFS). See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem

Jared

Re: How to 'link' a folder on the hosting system to a share

szgabor — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:28:40 GMT

Jared,

Thanks for the response…

Could you be a little more specific. Currently WebDAV and FTP is configured and working. (CIFS makes no sense in our setup 😞 )

Can you point me to some example hows to push a file into the alfresco filesystem from the machine filesystem by some sort of scripting?

Thanks.

Gabor

Re: How to 'link' a folder on the hosting system to a share

jottley — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:45:28 GMT

If the OS supports mounting of webDAV (most OSs these days do) You can script simple copy.

Other tools to look at would be cadaver (Example of scripting with cadaver and expect)

For ftp there are plenty of examples that a quick google search would provide examples.

For either of these on a Linux system you could take advantage of fuse based filesystems to mount the connections and allow you to again perform simple copies

davfs2 – http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2
CurlFTPFS – http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/

Probably the best approach is to mount either via webDAV or FTP and write the files directly into Alfresco.

Jared