Including full drives and even more Problems

[cougar2202]

After checking and searching this board for several times I didn't find any appropriate answer, so I'm starting a new topic. Hopefully someone can help.

I installed Alfresco on our Server (Trial Licence) and did set up the basic settings. Anyway, how to include the Users from Active Directory is still a mystery, but not a major problem here. The bigges problem I do have here is the adding of content to a space.
It is absolutely no problem to add Files to a space, but it becomes a Problem when I have to add several hundret files, echa and every one in a folder on the Server to a space. Is that the real sollution? Do I really have to pick every file? Or is there a smart way of entering that content in bulk? If I have to do this one by one I'll have to tell my boss that the next 6 Months there won't be anything else I can do that entering content.
Also selecting mapped networkdrives is a problem - it still won't as described in Help. ATM I've given up on that topic. Alfresco also adds an "_a" to my Servername, so it's not "\\name" it's "\\name_a", so there won't be any connection.
That I won't find any connection between MS-Office and Alfresco is nothing I worry at the moment, even if I must admit that we here absolutely WON'T use Open Office in our environment (Alfresco does install OO anyway, even if unchecked during installation, but it's OK, you can always uninstall afterwards.

After 2 days of work with Alfresco I found that it might be a good tool here, even if my users are all a bit older and are not eager to change longtime-known work habits (it's a real problem here), but when there's no way of adding whole drives in bulk - than it's of no use here.

Hope anyone can help.
Regards
Boris

[joglekar]

Hi,

I had same problem initially.

I have installed Alfresco on linux. samba service was running from this machine.
I stopped the samba service. and restarted Alfresco.
Then I can access the CISF share though \\192.168.1.xx\alfresco\
And also can do bulk copy / folder copy.

Even FTP is working.

From your post it looks like you are using windows server. I am not sure if this info is useful to you.

Joglekar

[mrogers]

I think the easiest way will be for you to copy in your content via the CIFS drive.   What exactly does not work?    Posting details of your Alfresco version and OS will assist people in helping you.

The name of the Alfresco CIFS drive is defined in the file-servers.xml file and you are correct that by default the configuration appends an "A" to the server name.   This is to avoid conflict with Windows which is also exporting a CIFS filesystem.
  
You can change the name of the CIFS filesystem to whatever you want.

[cougar2202]

Thanks for your replies.

Today I had some contact with a guy from a german distributor and he helped a bit. Didn't have much time today to keep looking into Alfresco, so I have to shift it to Monday.

Some Information on our System here:

- Main Server Windows 2000 with MySQL up and running
- MDeamon Mailserver (works like Exchange)
- A bunch of other tools running on the Server noone was able to tell me why they are needed but hell would break loose If I'd stop them (took over the department some time ago while predecessor was gone for 3 years, so imagine what I found here )

I now installed another Server with Windows as OS for and installed ALFRESCO there for testing purposes, so maybe it will work better there. The machine's a bit faster and I can mess around and will not temper the files on the real Server (my assistant would kill me, looks like she's got no fingernails, looks more like claws :lol: ) Anyway, the biggest Problem I was facing is that I do not want to pick each and every file by hand to add it to a space, it's about 300Gig of Data (which we have to sort out before, but anyway it's a lot) and I definately won't do it by hand. The guy from the german ALFRESCO branch told me there should be ALFRESCO as a shared drive somewhere, but actually it isn't. Maybe I delete the whole stuff and lock me into the Server room on monday and see if I can get it to work, maybe it's only a setup-problem.

mrogers, I'll definately will take a look at the file you mentioned, maybe I'll get into it. I can't change drive-letters as I want (ever heard of grown structures? It's a horror here : ( ) so I need to make the change as smooth as possible.

So thanks again for the answers, when I'll get things working I'll keep on posting my results, maybe someone else might find the info usefull.

[mikeh]

As has been suggested by other people, you can also use FTP - which may be quicker as it's less "chatty" than CIFS.

You've also got WebDAV at /alfresco/webdav which will work without any extra configuration.

Mike