Alfresco 4: Mapping network drive

[alfred_brose]

Hello,

a couple of weeks ago i've installed Alfresco 3.4 on a debian sqeeze with mysql using the official bin file. Then i mapped the company home as a network drive on a win7 machine using \\192.168.100.1\alfresco where the ip was the ip of the alfresco installation in the local network. Everything worked like a charm and yesterday i decided to install alfresco on our company server mainly in order to use the document management capabilities. I performed the same steps, now for Alfresco 4 and again everything looked fine. But when i try to map the company home as a network drive on a windows machine i automatically get the space "Sites" mapped and nothing else. I spent the last 3 hours googling, but couldn't figure out why this happens and how i can map the entire company home space. Am i missing something?
Thank you in advance for your help.

Alfred

[mrogers]

It sounds like your "rootPath" has been set to the sites folder rather than company home.

look at the filesystem.rootPath property.    And perhaps protocols.rootPath.

[anupam_sharma]

Hi,

Actually I'm new to alfresco and i tried to map the alfresco space to a drive in win 7. I've tried lot of links available on google search and I even tried the steps discussed in your post also but it seems out not working in my favor. May be I'm missing out something.
Can you guide me step wise how to map network drive on win7 as it is required in one of my projects.
I'm using Alfresco 4.0 community edition and Win 7 64 bit pc.

Thanks in advance!!!

[alfred_brose]

You're right. The protocols.rootPath setting in the file <alfresco_home>/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties pointed to the Sites space:

protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.sites.childname}

Removing the part after the last slash fixed the problem.
Thank you a lot!!

[rschuster]

This doesn't work anymore in 4.0.c?

In the Repository Browser created a Repository/test_folder which I wanted to share via the network protocols

However if my protocols.rootPath is set to anything other than the default value the protocols don't start.


protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.sites.childname}
#protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}/
#protocols.rootPath=/test_folder/

[rschuster]

Okay this works

protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}

But if I try to share out a top level folder in the repo it doesn't work

protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}/top_level_folder

[mrogers]

top_level_folder won't work since it needs to be a path name.

have you tried cm:top_level_folder?     And those _ may need to be encoded, but try adding the cm: first.

[rschuster]

I'm just going with

protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}

And having my clients map deeper into the repo ie like

net use * \\alfresco\alfresco\directory

[adithyainavolu]

Hi i have installed Alfresco 4.0.e in my company. I have even mapped alfresco network drive , every thing is fine but when i am trying to map network drive with the user credentials mapping is not being done. Can anyone please help me in this regard.

Thank you in advance