Alfresco in CentOs and shared folder in windows server 2008

[joãocarlospalan]

hello peoples,
Please, how can I make the alfresco manage my folders in windows network?
my alfresco is 4.2.d and is installed in CentOs 6.3.
thank you.

[rjohnson]

I don't think it works the way you expect.

What you can get Alfresco to do is to make its repository visible "as if it were" a windows file system which users can mount and browse / use as if they were remote disks. This is known as making Alfresco behave as a CIFS server.

Is this what you are asking?

Bob Johnson

[bisana]

I am afraid I was not able to follow what you wanted. Did you want the windows users to share Alfreso repositories

[joãocarlospalan]

is as follows:
I have a windows network where users group has shared directories. There are already  files and folders what they edit, delete, create new files.
But now came the need to manage it better. I want to have more control of who creates, edits, and deletes these files etc.. Then I thought of alfresco.
Is this possible?

[mrogers]

Yes.  But you need to move your files into Alfresco so alfresco can manage and own them.

[joãocarlospalan]

move to alfresco would, remove from windows network and put in CentOS server where Alfresco is installed?

if yes, I can not do this. So I think the alfresco does not serve to me.

[bopolissimus]

Hi,

I'm with Bob. It's not quite clear what you want.  Good to explain what you want to happen.  Possibly one of the following?

1. You currently have your files on a Windows 2008 fileserver.  You're thinking of having the files
   be stored in alfresco instead so that you can take advantage of other things that alfresco
   gives you (share interface, easy management of sites, solr search, custom content types and
   workflows, etc).

   If this is what you want, then you'd *MOVE* the content to alfresco and have alfresco share
   the files via CIFS or vti (sharepoint emulation).  The client machines would map a drive to
   the alfresco share (where previously they mapped that drive to the W2008 network share).

2. You already have files in a windows file share.  You want to keep the files there but at
   the same time, let alfresco manage the files.  If files are changed on either side, the
   change would replicate to the other side.  I don't think you can do this.  Well, I can
   imagine some hacks that would involve having the files in both places and having some system
   to automatically detect and sync changes in either direction.  But that's not a setup that
   alfresco natively supports and any hacks would be error prone.  Short answer, you can't do
   this reliably.  Don't do it.

With your last comment, it looks like you're looking at #2, so yeah, alfresco won't help you.

[joãocarlospalan]

I do not want to move, nor replicate.
I just want to keep my files where they are (Windows Server 2008) and Alfresco (CentOS 6.3) to manage them. What is the question?
If not ok, not!! Who knows, the share point help me.

[rjohnson]

You cannot do what you want. You cannot leave your files in Windows Server 2008 and have Alfresco manage them.

Bob Johnson

[joãocarlospalan]

Ok,
I thought I could do this.
and if I leave the Alfresco repository in windows 2008 server?

anyway, thanks to all who responded.