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How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

tushar_khanka — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:41:15 GMT

hi all, I have tried configuring my windows alfresco community 5.2 installer to point the contentstore to a NAS drive like dir.root=C:/EV/vanila/alf_datadir.contentstore=\\\\192.168.2.48\\z\\test\\contentstoredir.contentstore.deleted=\\\\192.168.2.48\\z\\test\\contentstore.deletedwhere z is the driv

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

sujaypillai — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:27:46 GMT

Your alfresco.global settings refers -

dir.root=C:/EV/vanila/alf_data

And the error log says

06190000 Failed to create store root: Z:\contentstore.deleted

Can you check on this first?

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

tushar_khanka — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 06:32:40 GMT

Hi Sujay, I have updated my error log

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

cesarista — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:20:35 GMT

Tushkar, you must have permissions for creating content under these folders (Z:\)

Regards.

--C.

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

tushar_khanka — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:14:18 GMT

hey Cesar, Can You tell me exactly what set of permissions should I set in windows as My NAS is shared with everyone with full modification access, yet it is not able to create.

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

tushar_khanka — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:12:28 GMT

Okay, so I figured out that accessing the shared folder needed credentials of the server from which folder is shared.
So, I disabled that property, now alfresco runs just fine when I give

dir.contentstore=\\\\192.168.2.48\\test\\contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=\\\\192.168.2.48\\test\\contentstore.deleted

but when i try to give the location of the drive that I just mapped like

dir.contentstore=\\\\192.168.2.48\\z\\test\\contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=\\\\192.168.2.48\\z\\test\\contentstore.deleted

It again shows me the same error as above.

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

sujaypillai — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:29:26 GMT

When you map it as a drive your property should change to:

dir.contentstore=\\<your_mapped_drive>\\test\\contentstore
dir.contentstore.deleted=\\<your_mapped_drive>\\test\\contentstore.deleted

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

tushar_khanka — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:50:30 GMT

Hi,
I tried your solution but what it does is make a new folder in my C:/ and when you

"dir.contentstore=\\<your_mapped_drive>\\test\\contentstore"

does <your_mapped_drive> mean just the letter Z ?

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

cesarista — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:05:54 GMT

Basically the ability of creating and deleting folders and documents under the given path for the system user that is running the alfresco process. There is no full modification access for everyone if the process can not create the contentstore.deleted folder.

Regards.

--C.

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

dba100 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:23:35 GMT

hi,

Is it only for Alfresco 5.2 only ? how about if we are running old version:

1) Alfresco Community v5.0.0
(d r99759-b2) schema 8022

2) PostgreSQL 9.3.6, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit.

and the platform is on windows

What we want is we ONLY migrate the file storage part of alfresco to NAS, is it working fine for Alfresco Community v5.0.0 on windows ?

What is the minimum technical performance requirement of the NAS for Alfresco Community v5.0.0 to works well?

We are concerning if the NAS performance will impact Alfresco a lot !

Re: How to point contentstore to a NAS in windows

dba100 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:01:06 GMT

any update for me ?