topic Re: CIFS and WCM in Alfresco Archive

CIFS and WCM

sturner — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:57:38 GMT

Hello,I'm using the WCM preview release on Win XP and am exploring the CIFS interface.I can see the Alfresco repository in Win Explorer and (after logging in with my Alfresco admin username & password) can navigate to a list of the three spaces I have under Company Home - these are Data Dictiona

Re: CIFS and WCM

kevinr — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:40:02 GMT

CIFS access to WCM sandboxes was not available in the preview version - it is working in the current code and will be available in the next release.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: CIFS and WCM

sturner — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:23:30 GMT

Thanks Kevin-

I'll look forward to the next release.

Steve

Re: CIFS and WCM

jcox — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:11:13 GMT

Just so you're aware – the name "Alfrseco_www"
should never have appeared as an example in
the docs. It's a bad choice for several reasons.
First, '_' is not a valid character in a DNS host/domain;
thus, it must be translated (the translation char is '-').
Second, using 'Alfresco' and 'www' in an example
confusingly self-referential. Finally, while DNS
permits caps, is case-insensitive, and the standards
say apps should be case-preserving, nearly all
browsers display the hostname in lower-case.
Therefore, it's conceptually simpler if you stick
to lower-case DNS names only.

A better example for a web project name would
have been something like "mysite".

Re: CIFS and WCM

alexander — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:39:20 GMT

Is CIFS browsing available in Afresco 2.0 preview?

If yes, how to access website content (if I browse there in a standard way, I do not see AVM content)?

Re: CIFS and WCM

kvc — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:47:42 GMT

Is CIFS browsing available in Afresco 2.0 preview?

If yes, how to access website content (if I browse there in a standard way, I do not see AVM content)?

Yes, CIFS is supported for web content in the 2.0 Preview.

Web Projects are configured as a separate mountable file-system. This separate mounts lets you browse not only all your available sandboxes, but also all site snapshots.

The filesystem mount configuration can be found in your file-servers.xml file:

<!– AVM virtualization view of all stores/versions for WCM –>
         <avmfilesystem name="AVM">
            <virtualView/>
         </avmfilesystem>

Just mount \\YOUR_MACHINE_NAME_A\AVM, and you should be good to go.

Kevin

Re: CIFS and WCM

thaiyal — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:58:42 GMT

Hi,

I could not mount \\MY_MACHINE_NAME_A\AVM folder as there is no folder with that name. However, after adding <avmAllStores/> to the file-servers.xml file, I can directly mount my web project as \\MY_MACHINE_NAME_A\MY_WEBPROJECT_NAME.

But this throws a ClassCastException whenever I click on the details link of my web project.

Here is the exception trace:
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.alfresco.filesys.avm.AVMContext
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.common.Utils.generateURL(Utils.java:632)
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.common.Utils.generateURL(Utils.java:708)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.BaseDetailsBean.getCifsPath(BaseDetailsBean.jav
a:213)

After digging into the code, setting 'rootNode' to null for AVMContext seems to fix the issue. Is this the right way?

Thanks,
Thaiyal

Re: CIFS and WCM

kvc — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:52:55 GMT

Hi,

I could not mount \\MY_MACHINE_NAME_A\AVM folder as there is no folder with that name. However, after adding <avmAllStores/> to the file-servers.xml file, I can directly mount my web project as \\MY_MACHINE_NAME_A\MY_WEBPROJECT_NAME.

But this throws a ClassCastException whenever I click on the details link of my web project.

Here is the exception trace:
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.alfresco.filesys.avm.AVMContext
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.common.Utils.generateURL(Utils.java:632)
        at org.alfresco.web.ui.common.Utils.generateURL(Utils.java:708)
        at org.alfresco.web.bean.BaseDetailsBean.getCifsPath(BaseDetailsBean.jav
a:213)

After digging into the code, setting 'rootNode' to null for AVMContext seems to fix the issue. Is this the right way?

Thanks,
Thaiyal

Thaiyal - We'll look into this. The mountpoint should simply be available without you having to configure fileservers.xml or do anything else.

We'll get back ASAP.

Kevin

Re: CIFS and WCM

kvc — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:51:18 GMT

OK … investigated.

To see AVM through CIFS you need to explicitly enable it in
alfresco/extensions/file-servers-custom.xml via

         <avmfilesystem name="VIRTVIEW">
            <virtualView/>
         </avmfilesystem>

to get a mount that exports (almost) all AVM content hierarchically.

This is an omission in the instructions in the Eval Guide, which will be updated to reflect. Also, the GA product will have this automatically configured.

Kevin