automatic file/folder checkin?

[ashb]

I'm an Alfresco newbie running Labs 3 on Ubuntu but will be supporting many Windows users and will be including/checking-in file and folder structures already existing on Windows systems.

My question is this: Can Alfresco (out-of-the-box) be pointed at an existing Windows file/folder structure and parse it's contents generating a document repository automatically?  We have thousands of documents that we'd like to index in Alfresco and it's not practical for us to manually check each document in.

Again, I'm new to Alfresco so I apologize if there is an obvious solution for this that I've not yet found.

Any help or direction provided would be greatly appreciated.  Also, any links to further Alfresco documentation outlining this or related processes would be extremely helpful.

Thanks,

AshB

[mrogers]

No you can't point alfresco at an existing file system.  

However what you can do is to copy in your files via the Alfresco CIFS or ftp Drives.

[ashb]

No you can't point alfresco at an existing file system.  

However what you can do is to copy in your files via the Alfresco CIFS or ftp Drives.

Thanks for your quick response.  Copying files via CIFS seems like the best way to go for us, but one further question: if copying multiple folders full of files, will Alfresco retain file/folder structure when copying (i.e., just like a typical file system copy) or will we be limited to only copying files into existing directories in the Alfresco repository?

[mrogers]

It's a regular file copy.

[ashb]

It's a regular file copy.

awesome.  i figured it would be but wanted to be sure.

also, what local alfresco path needs to be set up as a cifs share in order to serve up the repository root?