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aflresco community 4.0c using sharepoint protocol over cifs?

ew6014
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
hi guys,

im thinking of deploying alfresco document management to my customer to replace their citrix system.

they mainly use microsoft office to do their work. and file sharing of cause.

im very confused on the footprint that sharepoint protocol alfresco uses. someone told me that the sharepoint protocol that alfresco uses is riding on top of cifs?  is that true?   am i right to assume that cifs is most lousy when users are located all over the whole of asia where internet connection is slow and frequently drops internet connection. 

im new to ECM and alfresco.  someone also told me that a NFS solution is best for this as its stateless and that it is very good protocol which uses very little bandwidth whilst maintaining checksum and cache of the file. so it will connect back and "syncs" as soon as internet connection is up.

would appreciate any help.

ps : ive been trying to install community on a centos6  vmware and my god, java uses up 100% cpu almost all the time.
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mrogers
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
No Sharepoint protocol is not related to CIFS,  if anything its similar to WebDav.

Yes CIFS is built for a LAN and is not suitable for a network with latency.

NFS could be a good solution however it depends upon your client software.

Java using 100% CPU is not normal.   You are probably swapping the JVM.   You probably need to give it more RAM.

ew6014
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
NFS could be a good solution however it depends upon your client software.
could you tell me a bit more about the NFS ? is it way better than CIFS?  turns out that windows has a client for it  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=274
but i have yet to test it though.