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Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

ktavasalo — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:44:20 GMT

Hello. I am very new to Alfresco. Can somebody help me please.One of the requirements in my practicum project is to connect a user space in Alfresco Share to a network folder. It is like mapping it to the SMB network. I dont know what to do. Please hep me. Thank you very much..

Re: Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

jpotts — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:14:24 GMT

You cannot point Share to a network drive. However, if you want to access the files stored in Share from a network drive, the repository can be exposed through CIFS/SMB. To understand how to do that, read the <a href="http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/fileserv-subsystem-CIFS.html">documentation</a>.

Jeff

Re: Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

ktavasalo — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:25:02 GMT

Thank you Jeff. Correct me if I am wrong Jeff. You mean to say, I can access the files in Share using a network drive BUT I cannot access them using Alfresco? My practicum supervisor wants me to modify Alfresco in such a way that a user uses Alfresco to connect to the network. Is this possible? Please help me.. Thank you very much..

Re: Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

jpotts — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:19:16 GMT

Alfresco is a repository. The files you access using any of the Alfresco clients (like Alfresco Share, Alfresco Explorer, Alfresco Mobile) must reside in the Alfresco repository. They cannot reside anywhere else.

Jeff

Re: Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

etech — Sun, 12 May 2013 05:09:31 GMT

Hi there. Couldn't you do something creative (or hackish) like:

(1) Mount Alfresco to a CIFS directory.
(2) Mount your remote/network directory to a directory within the Alfresco CIFS directory?

I have not tested this myself, but this or something similar may work..

Re: Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

jpotts — Sun, 12 May 2013 08:24:49 GMT

If you look at the Alfresco content store, you'll see that the files are in a proprietary structure and that all of the files have a ".bin" extension and have been renamed. The database keeps track of the names of files and their state along with all of the other metadata it tracks about a piece of content. So a file system in an arbitrary format with "real" file names and no corresponding entries in Alfresco's relational database will not be usable to an Alfresco server.

Hope this helps,

Jeff

Re: Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

popkultur — Wed, 06 May 2015 08:47:15 GMT

But is not this https://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/tasks/tuh-maptodrive.html what he is searching for? (and me, too). Or did I not understand it right? See also https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/general/non-technical-alfresco-discussion/map-windows-environment-share-or-drive-online

Re: Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

jpotts — Thu, 14 May 2015 13:38:25 GMT

Popultur,

No, this is not what he was searching for. The original post was not about exposing the Alfresco repository as a file share. The original post was about taking a non-Alfresco file share and somehow exposing it through Alfresco Share without ingesting the files into Alfresco's own repository.

Jeff