CIFS

[borja]

Hello
I´ve got a drive with a set of folders and pdf. I would like to start using alfresco as a document manager. I see that there is an option called CIFS that allows to map all the content of a network drive for alfresco. but how can be that possible if the content of alfresco is store in a folder called "alf_data\contentstore" and is in binary format?

Best regards,


Borja

[mrogers]

You have it backwards. :wink:  The CIFS server in alfresco provides access to the content store.   It does not map an external filesystem "into" alfresco.     You need to copy/ftp/import your content into alfresco first.

[borja]

I´m trying to access using cifs to my alfresco repository and it´s impossible. i do \\localhost\Alfresco and when i autehtnciate i receive an error. i look in alfresco.log and i cannot find the error.

[mrogers]

Of course it is not "impossible"  :roll:

However it is impossible to help with so little information.  

For a start…
What platform are you on?
Why do you think you should be able to connect to \\localhost\Alfresco?
What are your settings in alfresco-global.properties?
How are you trying to authenticate?
How have you configured authentication?
What error are you seeing?
What CIFS client are you using?

[borja]

Platform: Windows XP.

Why do you think you should be able to connect to \\localhost\Alfresco? I don´t know. Where do I connect?
I´m trying to authenticate using a windows explorer.


Alfresco-global.properties
###############################
## Common Alfresco Properties #
###############################

#
# Sample custom content and index data location
#————-
dir.root=./alf_data

#
# Sample database connection properties
#————-
db.name=alfresco
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco
db.host=localhost
db.port=3306

#
# External locations
#————-
#ooo.exe=soffice
#img.root=./ImageMagick
#swf.exe=./bin/pdf2swf

#
# MySQL connection
#————-
db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
db.url=jdbc:mysql://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name}
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

#
# Index Recovery Mode
#————-
#index.recovery.mode=Auto

#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
#mail.host=
#mail.port=25
#mail.username=anonymous
#mail.password=
#mail.encoding=UTF-8
#mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
#mail.smtp.auth=false

#
# Alfresco Email Service and Email Server
#————-

# Enable/Disable the inbound email service.  The service could be used by processes other than
# the Email Server (e.g. direct RMI access) so this flag is independent of the Email Service.
#————-
#email.inbound.enabled=true

# Email Server properties
#————-
#email.server.enabled=true
#email.server.port=25
#email.server.domain=alfresco.com
#email.inbound.unknownUser=anonymous

# A comma separated list of email REGEX patterns of allowed senders.
# If there are any values in the list then all sender email addresses
# must match.  For example:
#   .*\@alfresco\.com, .*\@alfresco\.org
# Allow anyone:
#————-
#email.server.allowed.senders=.*

#
# The default authentication chain
# To configure external authentication subsystems see:
# http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems
#————-
#authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm

#
# IMAP
#————-
#imap.server.enabled=true
#imap.server.port=143
#imap.server.host=localhost

[borja]

The doubts is still up.

[mmlindt]

The book "Professional Alfresco" Chapter 14 Page 354 states that "you can contribute documents directly using the file system."  Then it goes on to give an example of mapping a drive on a Windows system.  However, the example is not clear and may not be correct.  Here is how the book says to map the drive:

From a command prompt, run the following:
       net use z: \\<MACHINE_NAME>A

You can log into the drive using admin\admin.  Once this is done, a mapped Z drive should exist and you can browse the drive as you would any drive.  Then you can drop and drag content into this drive, thereby, adding content to Alfresco

I keep getting the following error no matter what I try to map this drive

System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.

Any help in determining how to map this drive would be appreciated

[glenski]

Hello

I am using windows and Alfresco 3.4.d and was able to map a drive in windows explorer but you have to get the "syntax" right. IT'S CASE SENSITIVE.

\\<machinename>A\Alfresco

you will then be asked to authenticate, for simplicity purposes enter admin and its password.  These are the credentials of the Alfresco system!

I would suggest getting some of the Alfresco books I am using Alfresco ECM, its a little dated but the fundamentals are still very useful.

Regards

G